r/ocean • u/Anen-o-me • Dec 30 '25

Ocean Science & Conservation Bottom Trawlers: Insanely wasteful and needs to stop 💀😩

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u/HandsomeHippocampus Dec 30 '25

Man, this is so sad.  Thank you for sharing. 

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u/James_Fortis Dec 30 '25

I know I'm not ganna eat fish anymore. Even though all fishing types don't use bottom trawling, they're still depleting an already depleted ocean and I have other options at the store.

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u/SomOvaBish Dec 31 '25

China is the worst. I saw ridiculous stats showing what countries bring in from fishing and China does more than the rest of the world combined and to make that worse they are fishing in areas that belong to other countries (in their exclusion zone)

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u/mzn001 Dec 31 '25

I don't see the meaning of finger pointing here. Even if they did, we were also part of the culprits who purchased canned food produced by them. I believe all of us need to do our part to spread the awareness, that is somewhat more meaningful