EXTINCTION Slaughter in the Oceans

In the last few decades made has perfected his machines for finding and for harvesting fish to a point that he can and is running down the world supply of this protein at an unstained rate. The North Alantic cod fishery has been decimated by these machines.

Bottom trawling sweeps up the target and trash fish and at the same time tears up the bottom habitat.

Massive nets and other methods are so efficient in other parts of the world such as Alaska the the fleets take a very short time to catch their allowable quotas.

Forty mile long drift lines have contributed to wiping out 80% of the large fish in the world. Sharks have been caught only for their fins for soup in China.

In the tropics the use of cynaide and dynamite have decimated the fish on many coral reefs.

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Fish Farming has replaced some of these losses e.g. salmon and shrimp but this is not without some costs to the enviroment.