We harvest over 160 billion pounds of fish every year, which roughly translates to about 50 pounds of fish consumed per person globally.

Unfortunately, a lot of what we catch just so happens to get wasted. In the US alone, we needlessly fritter away 2 billion pounds every year. Some of that is bycatch, meaning fish and other animals that are commercially unviable and tossed overboard, but it also happens during processing; it’s usually the stuff that can’t get turned into fishmeal or the parts we don’t eat like the skin, bones, and organs. Of course, that’s not the only way we impact our waterways, as our addiction to plastic results in an estimated 8 million metric tons ending up in the ocean.