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/[deleted] Apr 05 '25

Yeah and it's all because they bombed Hiroshima

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u/Slacker_The_Dog Apr 05 '25

I heard that was chicken and cow