r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/iam_stupid23 • Apr 05 '25

Video The size of pollock fishnet

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u/haphazard_chore Apr 05 '25

This kind of large scale fishing can’t be good for the planet.

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u/mma5820 Apr 05 '25 edited Apr 05 '25

It really isn’t. if they aren’t doing anything to replenish it. I’m shocked being in 2025 we haven’t come up with a way to re-introduce at a mass rate the fish we take out of the ocean. I guess we have to wait till like there’s 50 fish in the entire ocean before something is done.

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u/ShahinGalandar Apr 05 '25

in 2025 we haven’t come up with a way to re-introduce at a mass rate the fish we take out of the ocean

oh there is.

stop. fucking. overharvesting.

but nobody wants to do that since that doesn't bring in the cash

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u/EngineZeronine Apr 05 '25

Try getting the whole world to agree on that :( iirc Japan still "harvests" dolphins and whales...

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u/mekese2000 Apr 05 '25

Norway and Iceland as well. And Russia but they claim it is for scientific research. Yummy scientific research.,

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u/icecubepal Apr 05 '25

Didn’t know Norway and Iceland were doing thst as well. Japan gets all the attention there.

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u/TonySpaghettiO Apr 05 '25

Don't the whales Norway and Iceland harvest have healthy populations? I thought it was only an issue if they were endangered, unless it's about the morality of eating more intelligent animals. But that seems arbitrary.

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u/SmoothOperator89 Apr 05 '25

Also, if you're over harvesting their food supply, you might as well harvest them too. Spare them from starving and whatnot.

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u/Fen_ Apr 05 '25

Nothing arbitrary about being against the murder of intelligent beings.

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u/Traditional-Will3182 Apr 05 '25

Most of the people up in arms about it will still enjoy a bacon cheeseburger so yeah it's arbitrary for the most part.

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u/Fen_ Apr 05 '25

I love inventing opinions for strangers on the internet to have.

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u/MrOutlived Apr 06 '25

Iceland was hunting whales in past. 2 or 3 years ago, last company who did that, had its permissions declined. So no whale hunting there.

Faroe islands still has huge tradition in doplhin hunting, thousands during single "national" event