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Simple_Opossum OP t1_j4w4zni wrote

Reply to comment by VegetableDrank in 4-year-old whale of one of the world's rarest species is "likely to die" after becoming heavily entangled, NOAA says - CBS News by Simple_Opossum

I can't tell if you're kidding. It's ghost netting, or nets/rigging that are unmanned and floating as debris in the open ocean. Ghost nets account for a huge portion of marine debris, and kill tons of wildlife.

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VegetableDrank t1_j4wpc23 wrote

Surely it was all the straws in the ocean and not littered industrial fishing lines and nets that caused the whale to become tangled.

The good ol' fishing industry would never do something like this. Consider all the dolphins they claim not to harm!

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Simple_Opossum OP t1_j4wrf0l wrote

Ah👈, I see what you mean. Of course, it's all those single-use plastics you use on a daily basis, not the producers of those plastics. No, not at all.

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Farbanteri t1_j4x3kpp wrote

I mean, single-use plastic straws are still an issue. While they may not entangle an animal like a net, animals will still eat and subsequently choke on it. Plus, if it doesn’t choke on it, then it digests it - absorbing micro-plastics into their body. We then eat said fish or crabs or whatever, and those microplastics end up in our bloodstream. It’s horrific stuff.

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