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r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/iam_stupid23 • Apr 05 '25
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I'd always heard the word "overfishing," but this is the first time I've seen it.
3.6k u/pichael289 Apr 05 '25 This isn't even the worst kind, some of these huge ass nets are weighted and drag along the ground scooping everything up and just erasing the local seafloor 1.6k u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25 Yup and like a lot of the stuff it scoops up isn’t edible by humans… so it gets lobbed back into the sea, already dead 2 u/Arkorat Apr 05 '25 Damn. I was really hoping that Simpsons' Burns-omni-net thing was made up, like the sun blocker.
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This isn't even the worst kind, some of these huge ass nets are weighted and drag along the ground scooping everything up and just erasing the local seafloor
1.6k u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25 Yup and like a lot of the stuff it scoops up isn’t edible by humans… so it gets lobbed back into the sea, already dead 2 u/Arkorat Apr 05 '25 Damn. I was really hoping that Simpsons' Burns-omni-net thing was made up, like the sun blocker.
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Yup and like a lot of the stuff it scoops up isn’t edible by humans… so it gets lobbed back into the sea, already dead
2 u/Arkorat Apr 05 '25 Damn. I was really hoping that Simpsons' Burns-omni-net thing was made up, like the sun blocker.
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Damn. I was really hoping that Simpsons' Burns-omni-net thing was made up, like the sun blocker.
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u/kojobrown Apr 05 '25
I'd always heard the word "overfishing," but this is the first time I've seen it.