The industry kills millions
of fish that will never be eaten by
anyone. | | |
The Fishing Process Wastes or
Loses More Than One Third of Already-Overfished
Species | | |
Earlier this
year, a fishing trawler off the coast of France released
a whopping 100,000 dead fish into the water,
creating a silver blanket on the ocean's surface that
stretched for several thousand square meters.
The images of the scene are harrowing, and not only
because it represents such colossal damage to the local
marine ecosystem. This dump is part of a broader scam by
the fishing industry, a notoriously anti-environmental
sector. Unsustainable practices like
bottom-trawling indiscriminately kill all different
types of sea life in a boat's path, including creatures
the fishermen never intend to sell. This means that
millions of fish are killed each year — never even to be
eaten at all.
Fish
populations are already at extremely high risk.
Pollution and climate change are threatening many
species of fish with extinction in the coming decades.
This grows ever worse as global warming makes ocean
waters increasingly uninhabitable. But the fish industry
is exacerbating crisis by every measure, both through
overfishing and through sheer waste. Discarding unwanted
fish is a callous way to treat marine life.
Experts estimate that around 35% of overfished
organisms are ultimately wasted or lost. The
industry is simply killing innocent creatures who are
already at risk of extinction, and leaving local
ecosystems in even more disarray with thousands of tons
of dead fish waste floating about. We
must put pressure on the United Nations Environment
Programme to take immediate action. It must
protect our oceans' biodiversity before it is too late!
Sign the petition
now. | | |
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Thank you,
Miranda
Care2 Petitions
Team | | |
P.S. When
species go extinct, there is no way to bring them back —
yet these reckless fishing practices push marine life
ever closer to the brink of extinction. Sign the
petition. |
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Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 7:02 PM
Subject: Vladimir, we can't allow waste from indiscriminate
overfishing to continue
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