Capture fisheries landings (excluding discarded bycatch) amountto 96 Mt, of which 65 Mt of whole fish and 1 Mt of seaweeds are consumed by humans. The remaining 30 Mt of fish catch plus
another 2Mt of processing scraps from aquaculture and fisheries are used for fish meal production. The fish meal industry has proposed that fishing vessels be encouraged to retain bycatch, now
discarded, for sale to producers of fish meal and fish oil.Sale of bycatch could prove undesirable, however, if it undermines efforts to reduce bycatch rates or decreases in situ recycling of bycatch.