Bycatch Movie

[roxyapoxy]

I agree that bycatch is a problem, but aquaculture only exacerbates our climate crisis by creating filthy ponds that eventually have to be completely abandoned because the fish can no longer survive in them. To extend the life of the pond, the owners often use toxic chemicals and antibiotics on the fish. These chemicals leach into groundwater and pollute our environment. Stop destroying the only planet we'll ever have. Go Vegan!

[skiarv]

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[lyonka24]

I hope that you also realize what damages aquaculture can impose on native fisheries! For example: Lionfish.

Lionfish were never native to the east coast and in 1985 Hurricane Andrew caused several Lion Fish to get into our coastal water off of Florida. They haven't determined where they came from; personal tanks, or the aquarium but their population shot up so quickly that they are depleating naitive fish species. The lion fish in this area are twice the size they are in their naitive habitat.

[lyonka24]

@lyonka24 Aquaculture is not the solution. The USDFW and NOAA are already looking for safe alternatives to nets that promote a lower yield of bycatch. Your video is just showing the negitves, you need to include the positives that our gov't is working for and the already positve yields. As a Fisheries and Wildilfe Student at Oregon State University I am just asking that you make sure you know what you are showing and all the backup research to make a video that just doesn't make people protest.

[lyonka24]

@lyonka24 Other then that good job on showing some of the better nets =)

[strikenetter]

Bycatch ? lol, ha ha ha, Florida law requires fisherman to use nets which have a 98 % bycatch rate, you don't know the half of it !!!!!!!

[MrAirbiscut]

Aquqculture might eliminate the bycatch issue but it increases the pollution in the area where it occurs. Also how about escapment of farmed species? Disease? that's an issue unto itself. How do you think they get the huge amounts of feed fish needed for aquaculture? I'm going to guess it's with non selective small mesh netting. Aquqculture's not as clean as it sounds.

[strikenetter]

Did you know fisherman here in NC are required to catch and kill " bycatch" in order to harvest other species ? To keep 50 lbs of striped bass i have to kill 50 lbs of an invaluable specie to save the stripers ! Genius logic by intelligent biologists !

[strikenetter]

I watched this vid again, tomharper, the info from yourself states netting fish is non-selective ? FALSE !! My method of gillnetting is the most selective form of netting fish ! If any bycatch at all, the highest rate may be 1 % and most get released alive. So many people unequipped with knowledge on the subject believe everything they read without seeing for themselves.

[strikenetter]

The fisherman in FL were wrongfully placed out of business, for fraudulent photos played a major role in the net ban. Linoleum carving, did you know that the CCA, which played a key role in the gillnet ban, their head conspirator Walter Fondren is heir to Exxon Oil ?? CONSERVATION ?

[linoleumcarving]

I use to camp out on the spoil islands of the intercoastal way of Clearwater Fl. harbor and watch at morning light the mullet boats haul their nets in and they would dump loads of now dead fish back into the bay. Those boats and their nets were banned years ago. The night before the law went into effect many of them went out, placed their nets and then cut them lose...as a protest. Fuckers!

[strikenetter]

my method of commercial fishing using mono. gill net is very selective, perhaps the most selective !! with less than a 1 % bycatch rate which gets released alive, sight fishing will gill net is VERY selective but yet your research doesn't ever mention this. Last week, 7000 lbs of mullet, 3 unwanted fish per trip and one of the fish was over the limit so had to release. 5 trips, 15 lbs of bycatch released alive, 7000 lbs of sellable fish, heres the truth about bycatch too

[strikenetter]

snowmen says it all, two sides to every story !!! and to marcusmac1608 u are very right also, yes many types of commercial fishing is wreckless and a danger to the environment and all species in it !!! yet smaller fisherman with NO bycatch are still being put out of business by these interest groups !! look at my channel and my vids and you will see no bycatch, nothing killed for no reason other than consumption by human beings !!!

[SSCSactivist]

Good video about a much forgotten but important issue.

[Aprinsa]

If life is as dear as this song makes me feel it is, then why eat fish at all? :( Evolution may have made us to eat each other, but did it make us to be eaten? No. It made us to run away from those eating us. Don't we run away from lions and tigers? Imagine if we were fish...

[happyhippy03]

Bycatch is now at least 30 mill tonnes per year, with total fish consumption by humans > 100 mill tonnes. That is a huge amount 'extra/unwanted' thrown away, dead...

>2/3rds of global fisheries are overfished, so aquaculture still contributes to that problem because many farmed fish are fed on fish caught from the wild - at least another 10 mill tonnes...

We need ecosystem management of fisheries on a global scale, and reduction of bycatch through better practices...

Thanks for the video

[marcusmac1608]

ok..

do you have any proof of these figures whatsoever?

and if you say off the greenpeace/wwf websites il laugh ma heid off!

[happyhippy03]

Actually yes there is proof. Scientists get paid to research these figures properly (often by the fisheries themselves) and not to exaggerate them (unlike some charities may do). If you read any of the scientific literature, like Science, Nature, Fisheries Bulletin, etc. you would find many many papers from around the world which both discuss the problem, use figures to back it up like the ones I gave, and talk about how to manage it. I'm a marine biologist too so I know what I'm talking about.

[snowmen1866]

Commercial fisherman's financial interest is dependent on a healthy Ocean. they have a trmendous investment in capital, equipment and knowhow, if they fish the ocean out, their out of a living and there investment is worthless along with there knowledge.

On the other hand environmental groups need issues, real, misrepresented or flatout make believe to get ignorant people pissed off at fisherman and donate money to fund there livelyhoods!

[marcusmac1608]

very true, they have to pick on an easy target and get everyone to jumpon the bandwagon.

fishing is an easy target because most prople do not know anything about it and justt believe what they see in these videos.

[oreoguy55]

except for SonnyReast he makes a good point

[oreoguy55]

These comments are pretty pathetic

[SonnyREast]

Im not a member of peta nor a "tree hugger" but i have been fishing all my life i can tell you commercial fishing,in many forms,is MUTILATING our ocean which in effect has a direct result towards us. The excuse "we just need to make a living" is bullshit.They have taken their technology to the max,and they are depleting everything that can be made a buck off of.

[xnailsok12345]

Fully agreed my ass just shut the fuck up all off you, let those people do there fucking job

[Vetty155]

I hope you do realise that most fisherman actually care about their resource. Don't always blame the fishermen. Corporately owned fishing fleets (the ones who give lots of money to the government) and foreign fishing vessels cause the most problems. Also, the seal population is out of control in Atlantic Canada.

[tomharper]

Yes thanks. The movie quotes international statistics on the problem of bycatch, it doesn't reference any parties personally, this is a global problem not a local one. Seal culling is what you are referring to, and isn't anything to do with Bycatch.

Thanks

[zingtea]

Actually the harp seal population spiraling toward extinction because seal-hating fishermen slaughter hundreds of thousands of them every year.

[marcusmac1608]

what an ignorant cunt you are!

[zingtea]

Care to say something remotely related or intelligent?

[lyonka24]

@Vetty155 The seal population is on the rise but if you look up the numbers it is not impacting the fisheries as bad as the bycatch.. but as a fisherman myself I can admit that we all just use seals and sea lions as a scapegoat. other then that there are several factors not just a single one, such as habitat degradation, global warming, pollution, invasive species, etc.

[txkingfisher]

We do need to work very hard to minimize bycatch. Thank you very much for looking at the problem objectively and understanding that we are out to make a living and not to destroy the resource. However, this video doesnt show the issues accurately. Most of all, aquaculture hurts the environment through pollution far worse than bycatch ever could pound for pound.

[txkingfisher]

Fuck you stupid motherfuckers! You dont even know what the fuck you are talking about!!!

[tomharper]

I think the focus was on the problem of bycatch on ways to decrease it, not so much remove fishermen altogether, I appreciate they are just making a living, and fair play to them

[GBdefender]

really good but sad video i whant to get some scumbag fishermen wrap them in nets and film them drowning under water close up like the hundreds of dolhpins and wales every year that die a terrible death ban scumbag fishing technics fast this blog is buy a good fisherman who cares about the planet, scumbags will rot in hell!

[razerbots]

i care man get a life

[luffy123456]

That is so sad. We should do something about this because they catch any fish or something in the ocean and sell it or throw it back. But the point is that we need to stop the fishermen and soon fish will be exstint.

[steelhead707]

"But the point is that we need to stop the fishermen and soon fish will be exstint"

retarded

[zingtea]

Fully agreed. Fishing should be local and we need to stop huge-scale industrial fishing on the high seas.

[penterd]

No, really, we should do something. Stop bycatch so I can still eat fish tommorow!!!

[penterd]

Fish tastes really gud :P

[penterd]

Fish tastes gud.:P

[Nubs926]

So what? Only hippies would care about this, honestly. ><

[tomharper]

You cared enough to comment!

[oneoakcanada]

If you only knew how the extinction of marine species would impact your life.