Watching a nature show right now...disgusting statistic

[Mook]

Waiting for the usual suspects to post how this is fine.

An estimated 100 MILLIONS sharks are killed a year. 100 million.

This article is from 2013 so who knows what the number is at now. The show Im watching just said 70 million...so maybe ocean policing is helping? Dunno.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...international-conference-on-shark-protection/

ONE OF THE most comprehensive studies ever compiled on illegal shark killing brings new startling statistics. An estimated 100 million sharks are killed every year around the world, a number that far exceeds what many populations need to recover.

The statistical report, compiled by researchers at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, crunched numbers of reported shark catches globally and used data from nearly 100 former papers to estimate the number of unreported shark deaths every year. In a moving range, the researchers were able to calculate that between 6.4% and 7.9% of sharks of all species are killed annually.

To put that range in perspective, researchers analyzed life data from 62 shark species and found that only 4.9% of sharks can be killed each year to maintain population stability. Anything more than that threatens long term survival of species like the oceanic white tip, porbeagle and several kinds of hammerheads. What’s worse, sharks are considered uniquely vulnerable because they take long periods to mature and generally produce few young over their lifetimes.

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[VenomousDSG]

Japs be killin erraythang

 

[Mook]

A bowl of shark fin soup goes for 100 bucks.

 

[VenomousDSG]

Fuck you whale, dolphin, and shaaaaaark

 

[Mook]

Just watched a fishing boat capture 150 tons of tuna and a few other various fish.

I dont have a leg to stand on because I enjoy eating fish, meat, etc.....but fuck man. We need to do better with how we rape the ocean. We're not even giving many of these species enough time to reach maturity and procreate. Maddening.

 

[VenomousDSG]

I think I read something a couple months back that we are going to fully deplete the ocean of shrimp in 40 years at the rate were at now too. MFers are just too dericious!

 

[1quick]

Problem is we do all this stuff for the environment in the us to reduce emissions and save animals, but over on the other side of the world they don’t give a fuck

 

[Mook]

Well, in international waters, where this fishing is taking place...theres no rules basically. We're just as guilty in situations like this one.

Fishing has become so high tech and so efficient, you can wipe out entire schools within an hour.

 

[VenomousDSG]

Problem is we do all this stuff for the environment in the us to reduce emissions and save animals, but over on the other side of the world they don’t give a fuck

And what little we save or change, another nation will pick up the slack and take. Which is why I laugh at the government thinking they can change anything when every other nation operates at full steam ahead with NFG.

 

[VenomousDSG]

Well, in international waters, where this fishing is taking place...theres no rules basically. We're just as guilty in situations like this one.

Fishing has become so high tech and so efficient, you can wipe out entire schools within an hour.

Government regulates what you bring in though. You can't bring fish into this country by any amount you want, and it all has to be approved and licensed.

Every other country, not so much.

 

[Mook]

Tuna populations are estimated to crash within five years at the rate nations are overfishing.

 

[zenriddles]

Japs be killin erraythang

Racist bastard.

THEY don't care if you call them that (I know and have asked a lot of Japanese people in my line of work), but Snowflake Americans go crazy at such insensitivity.

 

[Mook]

Maaaaaaaan, its gonna be a sad day when David Attenborough dies.

 

[P40E]

https://www.facebook.com/ElMolus/videos/1056078357887321/

 

[Fish]

Seafood sucks.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

I had no idea that there were that many in the ocean to begin with...

 

[Spivitz]

100,000,000 sharks killed per year....
Dam

 

[Spivitz]

Yum...


I wonder how many shrimp are harvested per year

 

[Flyn]

Less sharks means more sea turtles. People love sea turtles.

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Well, in international waters, where this fishing is taking place...theres no rules basically. We're just as guilty in situations like this one.

Fishing has become so high tech and so efficient, you can wipe out entire schools within an hour.

So. Theoretically, if there are no rules, can't you build a bad ass boat with a big ass gun and blow the fuck out of the whaling vessels?

NM. I'm just being a smart ass.

 

[03GTGreen]

Ya and imagine how much seafood goes bad before its bought or eaten

 

[Thirdgen89GTA]

Yum...


I wonder how many shrimp are harvested per year






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Top looks like a Mantis Shrimp. A total nightmare of a creature.

 

[Spivitz]

Yup, is a mantis. Id assume tasty

 

[01GTvert]

Problem is we do all this stuff for the environment in the us to reduce emissions and save animals, but over on the other side of the world they don’t give a fuck

This is exactly why I'm glad Trump blew up the Paris agreement where the US paid everyone else's pollution bill.

 

[sickmint79]

the chinese are getting wealthier and shark fin soup is a status thing. it's not even good but hey it's your birthday, invite your friends out, all have a bowl of expensive exotic shark fin soup to show how well you are doing. same with rhino horns, plenty of people know there's no real science behind any bs claims about their properties, but it's a culture/status thing to have a rhino horn.