{"id": 1206819, "name": "Discard rates by fishing gear", "unit": "%", "createdAt": "2026-03-06T11:06:18.000Z", "updatedAt": "2026-03-06T11:06:18.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "2014-2014", "datasetId": 7520, "shortUnit": "%", "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "discard_rates_by_fishing_gear", "catalogPath": "grapher/biodiversity/2021-06-01/fish_discards__un_fao/fish_discards__un_fao#discard_rates_by_fishing_gear", "type": "float", "datasetName": "Fish discards (UN FAO)", "datasetVersion": "2021-06-01", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"name": "Share of fish catch that is discarded by fishing gear", "unit": "%", "shortUnit": "%"}, "schemaVersion": 1, "presentation": {}, "source": {"id": 31231, "name": "P\u00e9rez Roda, M.A. et al. (2019).  A third assessment of global marine fisheries discards. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture.", "dataPublishedBy": "P\u00e9rez Roda, M.A. (ed.), Gilman, E., Huntington, T., Kennelly, S.J., Suuronen, P., Chaloupka, M. and Medley, P. 2019. A third assessment of global marine fisheries discards. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Technical Paper No. 633. Rome, FAO. 78 pp.", "dataPublisherSource": "", "link": "http://www.fao.org/3/CA2905EN/ca2905en.pdf", "retrievedDate": "2026-03-06", "additionalInfo": "Discards are animals thrown back (alive or dead) into the sea after being caught during fishing activities.\n\nThis is one subset of 'bycatch': animals that are not the target species but are caught during fishing activities. Some bycatch is still used as human food, or animal feed. The proportion that is not used, and is instead, thrown back into the sea is called 'discards'."}, "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 2014}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 225496, "name": "Barrier, fence, trap etc.", "code": null}, {"id": 225741, "name": "Beach seine", "code": null}, {"id": 225745, "name": "Beam trawl", "code": null}, {"id": 225505, "name": "Boat dredge", "code": null}, {"id": 225514, "name": "Gillnet, bottom", "code": null}, {"id": 225502, "name": "Gillnet, pelagic", "code": null}, {"id": 225509, "name": "Gillnet, surface and bottom", "code": null}, {"id": 225500, "name": "Handline", "code": null}, {"id": 225740, "name": "Lift net", "code": null}, {"id": 225513, "name": "Longline, bottom", "code": null}, {"id": 225504, "name": "Longline, bottom and pelagic", "code": null}, {"id": 225498, "name": "Longline, pelagic", "code": null}, {"id": 225743, "name": "Otter bottom trawl", "code": null}, {"id": 225503, "name": "Otter trawl, midwater", "code": null}, {"id": 225744, "name": "Otter twin trawl", "code": null}, {"id": 225746, "name": "Pair trawl bottom", "code": null}, {"id": 225742, "name": "Pair trawl, midwater", "code": null}, {"id": 225499, "name": "Pole-and-line", "code": null}, {"id": 225507, "name": "Pots", "code": null}, {"id": 225497, "name": "Purse seine", "code": null}, {"id": 225519, "name": "Seine, boat", "code": null}, {"id": 225747, "name": "Shrimp trawl", "code": null}, {"id": 225508, "name": "Stow net", "code": null}, {"id": 225510, "name": "Trammel net", "code": null}, {"id": 225512, "name": "Trolling lines", "code": null}]}}, "origins": []}