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-Enforce Regulations

-Safe catch limits

-Controls on bycatch

-Cut down $25 million in global government subsidies every year

-Set quotas and enforce them

-Have marine protected areas (No- take zones)

-Subsidize hook and line fishing

-This reduces bycatch.

-Overfishing subsidies total an estimated $16 billion annually

-Stop using trawlers

-Use brightly colored lines

-Streamer lines reduce bycatch. -Brightly colored lines scare away birds. Since 2002, when these lines became required, there has been a 70% reduction in seabird deaths.

-View marine animals as just as important as land ones.

- Make smart consumer choices

Solutions