Demand For Fish Killing Our Oceans

Many people would shudder at the idea of eating a dolphin or a turtle, yet millions of dolphins, turtles, whales, sharks, seals, rays, birds, and other marine species are killed each year because they become tangled in equipment designed to catch other species and are unable to escape.

They are the inevitable by-product of the fishing industry, known as by-catch, and their useless deaths are throwing off the ocean’s food chains and ecosystems. Estimates put the amount of by-catch in India alone, to be between 17 – 22 percent of total catch, or 2 billion pounds every year. By-catch is a factor in the dwindling numbers of important predatory species and even contributes to the deaths of endangered species.

Another cause of unintended marine life death as a result of the industry comes from what’s known as ghost fishing, which occurs when nets, traps, and fishing lines fall off of or are left behind by fishing vessels. These pieces of equipment remain in the seas and continue to catch sea life, usually resulting in a slow death for their cap

THESE ARE JUST A FEW OF THE DESTRUCTIONS (explained in short) WHICH HAS COME ABOUT BECAUSE OF OUR DEMAND FOR MEAT. THERE ARE MANY MORE ISSUES WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED with it. If we cut the demand for meat we can cut the supply, each one of you matter. And worried about the eventual unemployment of people in the meat industry?, worry not, if your demand for tofu or more vegetables or dry fruits increase the employment in such sectors will increase. for e.g.: if u replace milk with coconut milk then people will start working for coconut  industry rather than in dairy industry .