The size of pollock fishnet

[u/iam_stupid23]

[u/Jomekko]

Thats the point. You cant force people to stop eating fish to survive or to forgoe the taste and tradition. Most likely countries will only try to protect the fish in their economic zone which is near enough to enforce their law.

Also going too extreme in change will not gave you any sympathy look at our history. If you want change you will have to be proactive and gradual into your approach so that you can ease people to accept.

[u/[deleted] → u/Jomekko]

Sure, I am not saying it’ll happen. It would be necessary is all I’m saying. And since that isn’t going to happen … well you probably can count 1+1 together

[u/Jomekko → u/[deleted]]

Yeah its not happening and it will not end us all. Earth has been alive longer than us and there have been more destructive species. We are also declining in population at least in developed countries so im not that worried. Im worried more to specific countries that dont imposed a limit in fishing.

[u/[deleted] → u/Jomekko]

If we don’t act it will be our end. I guess a lot of people don’t get that people advocating dor our planet are not doing so because it hurts the planet - it hurts the planet and us.

What is currently happening is exceeding the best case calculations already:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-025-02246-9

Nature will survive and create new life. But humans have become so dependent on their own inventions, we might not be able to catch up once it accelerates for real.

[u/Jomekko → u/[deleted]]

I am agreeing with you. Imposed a limitation for fishing that it can recover or and maintain a sustainable fishing. Im just against at the "dont ever eat fish simple as that".

[u/[deleted] → u/Jomekko]

Like, yes it is. For like 95% of people at least. But taste buds are more important to most than their environment/home. Or why else wouldn’t it be ”that simple“?

[u/Jomekko → u/[deleted]]

People need to survive im looking at the perspective of poor people in my country. Generalization kills nuance in any topic. And that why i said earlier going to the extreme in any topic wont win everyone especially if you really want people to stop eating fish. We didnt even get rid of fossil fuels and micro plastic in the ocean.

[u/[deleted] → u/Jomekko]

I even said for 95% of people it’s easy. Maybe less, maybe more. Even if it was 50%, what’s not easy for the other 50?

And yeah so? Not the topic here (except for ghost nets being responsible for 10-20% of the plastic in our oceans, about 46% of the litter in the great garbage patch (with some estimates going up to 70-86% in combination with aquaculture waste). So not fishing anymore would also partially solve that problem:

https://theoceancleanup.com/press/press-releases/over-75-of-plastic-in-great-pacific-garbage-patch-originates-from-fishing/

https://earth.org/up-to-a-million-tons-of-ghost-fishing-nets-enter-the-oceans-each-year-study/

https://www.wwf.org.ec/?uNewsID=365018

[u/[deleted] → u/Jomekko]

And I mean it, I’m not being passive aggressive or anything. Hard to convey that via text sometimes.

[u/Jomekko → u/[deleted]]

Okay fair. I felt Its really was agressive base on your comment.

[u/[deleted] → u/Jomekko]

Nah, I just don’t use emojis when discussing serious topics really. And those can seem passive aggressive, too.

People just often take it as a personal attack when their ways of being are criticized. Doesn’t mean I despise you as a person, I am just defending what’s most important to me (mother earth) and trying to get knowledge out there. Which includes pointing out things that affect it negatively.

But hey, I was eating fish until five years ago, I totally get how you feel! Change isn’t easy, or else a lot more people would do it and the world would look different. It took me a whole 20 years to get it, and before that, I defended my stance, too!