We are pleased to inform you that the Third (FAO) Assessment of Global Marine Fisheries Discards has been published on 17 January 2019.

Abstract
The first discard estimate was published in 1994 by Alverson et al., and the second one in 2005 by Kelleher. This third update of FAO’s global discard estimate adopted the ‘fishery-by-fishery’ approach employed in the second discards assessment published in 2005. Unfortunately, it is difficult to quantify the progress made in reducing discards due to different methodologies used in the 3 estimates but this report indicates that in the last 10 years there has been greater scrutiny of such issues via public reporting of discards. This report also includes (i) a review of available data on estimating and mitigating fisheries interactions with endangered, threatened and protected (ETP) species, (ii) an overview of current measures to manage bycatch and discards and (iii) a summary of challenges associated with estimating cryptic sources of fishing mortality such as pre-catch, discards and ghost fishing mortality. The publication will be presented on 30 January 2019 in Denmark at the Science - Policy conference for the closing of Horizon 2020 DiscardLess project.

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