Ocean Life

“Industrial fishing does a great deal of damage to the planet’s ecosystems. Its consequences tend to be underestimated by the general public because most of the damage is invisible, occurring beneath the surface of the oceans and often out on the open sea.

Many fishing methods, whether they use lines or nets, impact numerous species that are of no interest to fishermen and result in what are described as “involuntary catches.” Sea birds are drowned or strangled while feeding off bait or trying to snatch fish trapped in nets. Hundreds of millions of fish and hundreds of thousands of birds are lost each year, as well as a great many marine mammals (seals, porpoises, dolphins, and sea turtles), though there are no precise global figures…”

from OCEAN, by goodplanet