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@july
Sell a man fish, he eats for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you’ll get fishing quotas and overfishing, you’ll get bottom trawlers that destroy the environment, you’ll get gigantic ocean plastic continents that are the size of countries, you get general habitat degradation, fish that aren’t fresh and frozen for weeks. Up to almost 40% of all the fish we catch is fish we don’t intend to catch, it’s called bycatch and we’re doing it. Not to even mention all the unreported and illegal fishing we have absolutely no idea. Extinction events, we are the extinction event. Don’t even get me started on farmed fishing, it is a nightmare. Think industrial chicken farming but with fish. We truly are not going to be eating real fish in 100 years I bet. Probably for the best I know; but the consequences will be total and utter destruction of our ocean habitat and ecosystem
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July
@july
I’m not against fishing at all. I admire all around watermen and women who spend time and understand and respect the ocean and the ways that it ebbs and flows. I think spear fishing is great, and I think fishing with your friends as an activity is great. I actually don’t even think industrial fishing is bad in and of itself. It’s just more, sad. I don’t think it’s going to get better any time soon, and in some ways I do think it will improve, but to me the use of the ocean is like tourism. People think it’s someone else’s problem, when in fact it is all our problem. A true tragedy of the commons
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Zach Lipp
@zachlipp
beautifully said, I always appreciate how you frame your thoughts
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July
@july
I appreciate you Zach
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