OrangeRoughy

Quick Fact: Overfishing

Fishermen catch orange roughy when the fish gather to breed and feed, wiping out
entire generations at a time.
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u Orange roughy may live u Orange roughy is caught u Pacific halibut and tilapia
100 years or more and don’t off New Zealand, Australia are your best choices.
u Pacific sole and summer
breed until they’re at least and Namibia in Africa, as
20 years old. Years of heavy well as in the northeast
fishing have decimated their Atlantic Ocean. flounder or fluke are good
populations, which may take alternatives.
decades to recover. OtherCommonNames
u Deep sea perch
u Fishermen catch orange
Emperor fish
roughy with bottom-
Rosy soldierfish
trawling gear, which
White roughy
involves dragging large
nets across the seafloor.
Trawling damages undersea
habitats and accidentally
catches other marine
animals that are dumped
overboard as bycatch.

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