10/3/2023 0 Comments Wild west frontier fish net![]() ![]() ![]() It’s like cutting the jugular when someone is bleeding out. ![]() Despite declining numbers, “management” organizations are raising catch limits rather than reducing them to allow stocks to recover. The decimation is real: a 2003 study found that 90% of the big fish in the ocean are gone, and what’s left is going fast. Other fishing methods like purse seines and longlines kill everything in their tracks indiscriminately. The ocean’s floor, once dotted with corals some over 5,000 years old, is being destroyed by bottom trawling–massive nets dragged across the bottom– just as bad as clear-cutting forests. One-hundred million sharks are killed each year, for their fins. The problem is corroborated by the fact that in the high seas there is no governance, yet only eight countries seem to control them, accounting for 77% of fish caught in international waters. Did you know that illegal fishing is the third most profitable crime on the planet?įleets of ships are decimating and pillaging fish stocks around the world, often killing whales, dolphins and sea turtles as a by-product. ![]()
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