empty oceans, empty nets

The other night I was watching a program on PBS, it was very interesting because it was talking about fisheries which is what our last two classes were about. Here is the website. On the program it talked about how much damage trolling and long lining caused in the oceans. It also showed how many fish are caught that are just not wanted so they just end up throwing them overboard dead. While I was watching I thought to myself 'there has got to be some use for the fish caught that they toss overboard'. I can't think of what they could be used for but I can imagine we could do something with them. The program was very informitive, it had people from both sides of the spectrum, fishermen and advocates to save the oceans creatures. I know that the fishermen have to fish and fish a lot to make money to support their families but at the same time some of them in my opinion do not have much common sense. If you fish till the oceans are empty them your nets will soon be empty and thus you will have no income. One lady thats husband was a fisherman said that there were plenty of swordfish in the ocean to catch as many as you wanted, she said that her husband would catch 100 lb swordfish and that is a big fish, she said. A retired fisherman that used to fish for swordfish said that when they went out they did not need to go out very far and the swordfish they caught weighed 200 to 300 lbs. Now lets think, is there a problem here? I could see that there definately was a problem and we need to fix it soon with the help of the fishmen and the advocates. Check out the website, it also has other interesting stuff.