What Does it Look Like Inside One of Those Huge Fishing Nets?

by Ellinorianne

You know those nets we hear about from gill nets to purse-seining nets, the ones that are full of not just tuna, but sometimes full of other fish and dolphins, turtles and other sea animals that wind up dying because of the use of outdated and dangerous methods that wind up doing a huge amount of harm to other species.

The New York Times did a huge expose on the Tuna's End because of our over fishing of this one very popular fish.  But it's not just overfishing of tuna that's doing irreparable harm to our oceans, it's the method by which we catch them.

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Wolf Sushi

by murrayewv

Doesn’t sound very appetizing, does it?  Why would you eat raw slices of a warm-blooded, pack hunting predator that is on the top of the food chain and whose numbers are critically threatened by hunting?
If you are a bluefin tuna sushi or sashimi eater, you are eating a wild population that is overfished and on the verge of collapse before the oil disaster.  You are eating wolves of the sea, warm-blooded pack hunters roaming the northern hemisphere before returning to one of two spawning areas- the Gulf of Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea.  

The tipping point is now, this year, this month today.   Take home message of this diary for those busy this Father’s Day: Stop eating bluefin tuna, and tell restaurants and fish shops to stop buying it for their customers.  Call it a moratorium, not a boycott.  

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