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by hammock 852 days ago
>Most fish are caught

Overfishing aside, I guess you would most often find people that believe hunting /fishing for your food is more ethical than farming it

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Which is absurd when you realize that commercial fishing kills up to half or more than what it catches.
Hunting/fishing for food was really more ethical many millennia ago, when humans were fewer than wild terrestrial vertebrates.

Nowadays, there are many more humans and domestic animals than wild terrestrial vertebrates, so hunting could not sustain any non-negligible fraction of the humans.

The modern methods of fishing are much too wasteful, so neither fishing has any future.