Overfishing of the seas

The longline fishery uses 1.4 billion (1,400,000,000) hooks each year, each with a dead, painfully impaled fish.

In trawling, which is very common worldwide, nets with an opening of 23,000 square meters are used. This corresponds to the size of 4 soccer fields.

There is room for 500 tons of fish in this giant net.

However, there is a great deal of bycatch below these 500 tonnes.

Bycatch is the term used to describe animals that you have caught “by mistake” but actually do not want to catch. These animals are thrown back into the sea, dead or dying, or made into fish meal.

On average, a shrimp bait throws 80-90% of the sea animals caught, dead or seriously injured, back into the sea.

This means that if we eat 1kg of shrimp, for example, more than 8kg of other marine animals will automatically die. Mostly it is turtles, sharks or dolphins.

In order to "relieve" the oceans, almost half of our needs are grown in aquaculture.

But actually this method is much worse, because the animals in the aquaculture are predatory fish and have to eat other fish. This pollutes the seas even more. For 1 kg of salmon, 5 kg of wild fish are fed. So you convert one type of fish into another with a smaller amount.

More than 60,000 tons of tuna per year die for us. 110 million tons of fish are killed, caught and eaten worldwide every year.

If our fish consumption is not reduced soon, overfishing will continue to increase and the seas will not be able to revive. All marine animals suffer from this.

So if we care about sharks, sea turtles, whales, dolphins and all other animals, we should reduce or avoid fish consumption immediately.

Because the higher our demand, the more the production.

Our decisions have an impact on all marine diversity!