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“But even if not a single gram of plastic entered the oceans from today onwards, we would still be ripping those ecosystems apart, because the biggest issue by far is commercial fishing,” George Monbiot, journalist and environmental activist states in the recent Netflix Documentary Seaspiracy.

The film has brought to light how single-use plastics are not the real culprit of plastic pollution in oceans – it is fishing.

46% of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch in the north Pacific is only polluted by fishing nets.

2.7 trillion fish are caught every year by the fishing industry, which not only leads to an immense ecological imbalance, but also to the deaths of countless other species, including 300,000 dolphins, whales and porpoises every year.

The film investigates aspects of oceanic destruction that most major ocean conservation organizations ignore. It shifts the perspective on marine conservation and highlights the role of the fishing industry in the falling populations of marine creatures.

And the solution it poses is simple: stop eating fish.

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The multinational, multibillion-dollar commercial fishing industry has been depleting fish populations around the planet for decades, driving many species toward extinction. Scientists estimate that the fishing industry kills between 0.97 and 1.97 trillion wild fish worldwide every year[1], further straining fragile oceans and other waterways that are already poisoned by pollution from oil spills, agricultural runoff and immense amounts of garbage.

Fishing has become an increasingly severe global problem because, as the human population (and its appetite for fish) rises, fish stocks continue to decline. Humanity’s per-capita consumption of fish has nearly doubled over the past half century, expanding by 3.6 percent per year since 1961—which is twice the rate of annual population growth.[2] Consumption started increasing in the 1950s when new technological developments were applied to fishing, greatly accelerating “seafood” production. These scientific advances ushered in the system of industrialized fishing that today dominates the commercial “seafood” market. […]

As a result, populations of tuna, flounder, cod, halibut, swordfish, and other large predatory fish who are among the most-consumed have plummeted by 90 percent since the 1950s, causing the numbers of smaller plankton-eating fish to increase.[7] […]

One research group tracking shark populations in the northwest Atlantic found that the numbers of all the species they studied were only half what they were in the 1970s. Even worse, species like tiger, scalloped hammerhead, dusky, and bull sharks lost more than 95 percentof their numbers during the same period.[8] […]

Bycatch is the industry term for what they consider unwanted or economically-worthless aquatic animals who are unintentionally caught using destructively indiscriminate fishing methods like longlines and driftnets, which generally target marketable marine creatures such as tuna and swordfish. However, billions of other animals, some of them endangered, are also killed in this manner every year, including sea turtles[11], marine mammals, sharks, and sea birds.[12] Commercial fisheries’ bycatch discard is estimated to be between 17 and 39 million tons each year.[13]

Shrimp fisheries have the highest bycatch rates, with (on average) four tons of fish discarded for every ton of shrimp caught.[14] Even though the US (since 1987)[15] and some other countries have required shrimpers to install Turtle Exclusion Devices (TEDs) on their trawling nets that allow critically-endangered sea turtles to escape capture, shrimp trawling and intensive commercial fishing remain among the gravest threats to sea turtles’ survival. Worldwide, between 1990 and 2008, an estimated 8.5 million sea turtles were fatally caught in nets or on longlines as bycatch.[16] […]

A major scientific study of coral reefs in 22 Caribbean nations found that many large predator species (like barracuda, Nassau groupers and sharks) have virtually vanished from these ecosystems mostly due to commercial fishing. The researchers correlated the most profoundly depleted areas with those having the densest human populations—and hence the most intensive fishing activity. Here they identified the same pattern the fishing industry follows in critical areas throughout the world: anglers target the largest fish first and, when they are gone, move on to the next largest species…and so on down the line until, in many places, only small predators remain.[18]

The disappearance of large predators from Caribbean reefs could shred the region’s delicate aquatic food web. For example, their absence has made the reefs more vulnerable to invasion by non-native species like the lionfish, which was most likely released into the wild by aquarium hobbyists. The lionfish’s spiky venomous spines give it a distinct defensive advantage over many native species, and it has a rapacious appetite for other fish. One study found that the survival rate of cardinal fish, parrot fish, damselfish, and other reef-dwelling species was cut by approximately 80 percent in areas with established lionfish populations.[19] […]

However, if humanity continues to plunder the oceans, many aquatic species that have existed for millions of years could be wiped out forever within the next few decades. In fact, with the human population expected to reach nine billion by mid-century, scientists now warn that 90 percent of all commercially-exploited fish species could become extinct by 2048 if current consumption trends continue.[27]

- Commercial Fishing, Food Empowerment Project

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everyone

I repeat, everyone should watch the documentary “seaspiracy” on Netflix. 

An industry that’s rarely talked about is KILLING THE OCEAN and therefore KILLING HUMANKIND. 

Did you know that over 80% of the oxygen we breathe is generated by microorganisms in the ocean? Did you know the whaling industry is responsible for a drastic decrease in the numbers of exactly those microorganisms? Did you know that the ocean is binding four times the carbon that the amazon forest is binding? Did you know that less than 3% of tuna remain in our oceans today? Did you know industrial fishing is the main cause of Ebola outbreaks? 

Did you know that commercial fishing is a greater threat to our life on this planet than plastic pollution? And that the money spent by governments on keeping the fish market running would be enough to end world hunger? 

Did you know that people employed to supervise the sustainability of commercial fishing are being brutally murdered for the sake of making consumers believe that a thing such as “sustainable commercial fishing” exists?

Did you know most of the seafood we eat comes from slavery/forced, unpaid work?

And would you ever have thought that making a documentary about commercial fishing is a life threatening job? 

If you did not know these things, you should watch the documentary “seaspiracy”. I’m not advertising for this, because someone told me to, or because I get money for it, but because I was shocked by the things I learned through this documentary. I was shocked by the fact that not everybody is talking about this! We talk about turtles eating plastic straws all the time, when really straws make up “only” 0.03% of all the plastic in the ocean. The real threat to turtles all round the world is commercial fishing. 

PLEASE HELP ME SPREAD THIS MESSAGE!

There is no such thing as sustainable commercial fishing.

We need to stop eating fish.

We need to pressure governments into stopping commercial fishing, shark finning, whale hunting, human trafficking aboard ships.

Watch “seaspiracy” to find out more.

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