Industrial fishing is a modern-day problem that isn't spoken about enough. The media choose to blame you for the mess of our oceans 'don't use plastic straws you're killing the fish if we actually look at the facts and figures the problems in our oceans are caused by industrial fishing, scientists and other experts predict that if we continue to fish as we are then by 2048 there will be no fish in our oceans. This is not a problem for future generations this is happening now and we need to do something.
The massive drop in marine life in the last few years has come down to one main thing. Fishing. Major companies take all of the fish from their habitats and couldn't care less about the other animals. Animals such as dolphins and sea turtles are continuing to be caught as a product of bycatch. The documentary Seaspiracy pointed out that roughly five salmon were caught twenty-two dolphins were seen and killed. So why not put them back? Perhaps it would take an extra five minutes but big businesses don't have time for that and they don't care about marine life they want the greatest number of fish in the least amount of time they care about money. This needs to change our oceans can't survive like this, if this doesn't stop the damage will be so incredibly massive that there will be next to no marine life, no marine life means no food, and no food can only put the human race into extinction.
Not only are major companies at fault for the killing of these animals, but they also leave a devastating mess that destroys the habitats that fish and other marine life would usually be thriving in. the national geographic states,
â46% of the mass of plastic pollution in the great pacific garbage patch comes from discarded nets and fishing linesâ these nets are just left behind; it shouldn't take long for these companies to simply pick them up why spend so much extra money on the building of these nets when you could reuse these nets. It doesn't make any sense. Fish and other marine life are rapidly falling, because of the damage caused by these fishing nets there is very minimal biodiversity the results of this will be disastrous we are now past the point of it possibly being disastrous we are at a point where it is inevitable, we need to try to find a way around it why do humans feel everything is made for them we are supposed to be working together and yet we still choose to believe we are on top of the world.
the fact that these nets are destroying the lives of these poor innocent animals means that scientists need to resort to something else at the moment there are a few locations around the globe that are working on fish hatcheries the downside to these fitch hatcheries is that it involves killing the parent fish in one particular fish hatcheries in the USA that focus on hatching salmon the normal life cycle of a salmon is it hatches the swims out to the ocean it then gets pregnant and begins to grow when its large enough it swims upstream and lays its egg. Due to the incredible decline in fish in the last few years, this process is occurring less often so in these fish hatcheries when the salmon swim upstream people go and take these salmons and kill them then take out the eggs inside the body using this process you end up with around 4,500 salmon. So, the question is can we engineer our way around it?
In conclusion, major fishing industries need to take action and responsibility for the damage they are causing to not only our oceans but our earth as a whole furthermore we all need to watch what's going on around us more closely its not just one person who let this monstrosity get out of hand it was our society it was us who didn't notice what was going on we may not be the people leaving these nets in our oceans but by sitting around and watching we are just as bad.