| > Fishing gear killed the whale. Fishing (eating) killed the whale. "... fishing takes 2.7 trillion fish from oceans globally each year. If this rate of fishing continues, the oceans will be “virtually empty” by 2048, according to marine biologist Dr Sylvia Alice Earle." https://earth.org/facts-from-seaspiracy/ "More than 640,000 tonnes of nets, lines, pots and traps used in commercial fishing are dumped and discarded in the sea every year, the same weight as 55,000 double-decker buses." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/nov/06/dumped-f... > If you want to rid the ocean of the vast majority of its trash, station a person to monitor each fishing boat Doesn't work. There is 4.5 mil fishing boats in the world. On some of them there are people monitoring by-catch (protect dolphins & turtles), but it doesn't work (corruption, death threats, system inefficiencies etc.). https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14152756/ - Seaspiracy movie talks in length about this problem > Coca-cola has nothing to do with it. "While Coca-Cola topped the list of the wastage in a dozen countries including Bangladesh, Argentina, Malaysia, Kenya and Turkey, PepsiCo topped the list in both the US and India as the top polluter this year." "The soft drinks company had, in 2019, admitted that it produces 3 million tonnes of plastic packaging a year — equivalent to 200,000 bottles a minute." https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/2022/11/15/coca-cola-i... "With Coca-Cola and her allies producing so much plastic, eight million tons of plastics every year end up in the ocean, eaten by whales ..." https://adetokunbo.substack.com/p/whales-dying-from-consumin... |
Replacing fish meal with fly meal.