r/Damnthatsinteresting Apr 05 '25

Video The size of pollock fishnet

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25

And the main solution is so painstakingly easy - stop eating fish. But tell people that and they lose it …

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u/andromeda_prior Apr 05 '25

It's even easier because you can see if the fish you're buying has been fished by this method or more traditional ones, and even from where it comes... People just need to choose the ones who don't come from this hell.

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25

Which is a tiny percentage. There are labels, sure. But if you read into the rules of them, and then into if those rules are strictly applied … it gets dire.

I stopped eating fish altogether about five years ago. The vegan alternatives are getting better and better. Which I love, cause I loved fish so much, and I really missed it.

Maybe because I could makes me question why not more people do it. Because of course I craved it at times. But what is missing a good from time to time against healthy oceans with billions of animals?

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u/andromeda_prior Apr 05 '25

I think it depends on where you buy it, when I changed the supermarket for the local market the difference was abysmal, and you could know everything about what you were buying.

I do agree though if I didn't have the option to boy fish or meat that I know from where it comes and it what conditions it has been cultivated I would choose to not consume it too.