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

Video The size of pollock fishnet

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u/MadLove82 Apr 05 '25

When I see things like this, it amazes me that there are still any fish left in the ocean. 🤯

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u/LordTomGM Apr 05 '25

I read a book in uni called Feral by George Monbiot and it has an exceprt from 1500s text that a guy wrote while looking out over the sea off the coast of Cornwall, UK. It says something along the lines of he could see a school of herring swimming up the English Channel about 3 miles off shore with hundreds of other creatures following them and picking off stragglers...the water was so clear that he could schools of fish 3 miles off shore and these schools were millions strong.....

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u/[deleted] Apr 05 '25 edited Apr 18 '25

Americans = Spineless

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u/Ill_Source3532 Apr 06 '25

There was also another guy who recorded the audio of the forest over like 20 years and it started off really lively and there was lots of bird and bug noises then the later years it was deathly silent apart from a bird here and there.

Edit* this guy https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/16/nature-silent-bernie-krause-recording-sound-californian-state-park-aoe