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Simple_Opossum OP t1_j4w5bnd wrote

Reply to comment by GWS2004 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 think there just generally needs to be a revolution in the way we utilize our marine resources. It doesn't really come down to a single fishery. As a whole, we're over-exploiting our oceans and creating the foundations of a catastrophe.

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GWS2004 t1_j4wj9pz wrote

For whale entanglements it comes down to a couple of fisheries here on the east coast of the US. Those are lobsters and crabs.

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thedrscaptain t1_j4wg1bl wrote

Good luck getting China to stop overfishing anywhere. They don't even give a shit about territorial waters that aren't their own--or-that-they-call-their-own--.

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GWS2004 t1_j4wjl35 wrote

Correct, but that means WE have to ask where our seafood comes from. We need to be responsible for driving the change we need to see. Corporations are not going to do it if we don't demand it. The next time you order seafood ask where it is sorced from. If they can't answer that question, don't order it and be sure to let the manager know why.

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thedrscaptain t1_j4wrbzp wrote

Agreed. And I do. Yet that practice is depressingly far from mass adoption

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GWS2004 t1_j4ww4we wrote

I know. It's truly unfortunate. But I won't give up!

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Different-Music4367 t1_j4y09xq wrote

An article from this fall, from a professor in Singapore (i.e. not knee-jerk pro-Chinese government), states that China has been implementing a number of policies to change its fishing industry. Pretty interesting stuff if you care about the world's overfishing problem:

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2022/08/03/chinas-efforts-to-reel-in-overfishing/

The territorial waters discussion is a bit of a red herring (haha), but if countries were to put limits on fishing imports it would certainly have an effect. Three quarters of US seafood is imported, and its biggest import source is China.

https://www.fishwatch.gov/sustainable-seafood/the-global-picture

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