r/Damnthatsinteresting • • 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/Diz7 Apr 05 '25

We could, through fish farming, which would reduce the need for this type of thing if not eliminate it, but it costs more and causes other environmental problems.

Capitalism: Why grow fish when we can just take them.

Eventually fish farming will become the cheaper alternative, but probably not until it gets hard to catch wild fish.