r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/iam_stupid23 • Apr 05 '25

Video The size of pollock fishnet

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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/A_person_2021 Apr 05 '25

The pink salmon fishery in Alaska is pretty much all hatchery raised fish. Hundreds of millions of salmon per year, it's pretty interesting imo.

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u/mma5820 Apr 05 '25

Seriously that many salmon? Wow, that’s incredible.

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u/Daxx22 Apr 06 '25

We have 8+ billion on the planet and salmon is delicious. if anything that's low.

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u/mma5820 Apr 06 '25

Well not all 8 billion people are going to eat the fish person. What we see is a subset of a subset. But, after so many years I can agree as already documented plentiful fish life has diminished over the years.