Sustainable Fishing

Sustainable Fishing - 

Sustainable fishing is where you ensure that there will be fish in the future for other people to have. But the best thing to do currently is not fish at all due to the fact we have already pushed marine life to the brink of extinction by plastics, shark finning, fishing, and bycatch. Letting the population reproduce and grow back to a safer population.  There is no possible way to restrict how much fishing boats are catching and the number of dolphins or other sea life due to bycatch. As long as we still eat fish, fishing companies still have a motive to continue fishing, as the fishing industry is a very profitable business.  

How is commercial fishing a threat to dolphins and birdlife?

Fishing is by far the biggest threat to dolphins and birdlife. There are many different techniques to fishing, some more lethal and “efficient” than others, one of the worst fishing methods is trawlers where a massive net hurds in schools of fish then closes the top of the net trapping the herds of fish inside. This method is dangerous as it has the highest rate of bycatch, meaning several other aquatic life gets stuck in the nets as well. Most bycatches die in the fishing nets before they can be released back into the ocean. Not only are trawlers killing thousands of marine life, but it is also most if not all fishing techniques that are harming the ocean's ecosystem.