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Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

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Re: Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

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Ahistoric defeatism. Embraces our nature, instead of fleeing for the hills of utopism. Learn to steer it, change it. We accomplished wonders- humanity is calm and peaceful compared to what it once was. The gaming industry and cellphones alone have pacified a species whose footprint is ever shrinking. Literal monks with hypnotic glowing stones, this whole industry is a miracle and has given nature a breather it would…

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Re: Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

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post #28

File this under the category "people are f-bomb-ing idiots". I wouldn't be surprised if social media was spreading this technique as successful way to fish.

My first encounter with the concept of bomb fishing was the Shapoklyak episode of the soviet cartoon Cheburashka, produced in the 70s. It's been around.

Yeah it’s been around for a while but it’s been at the individual level not at the commercial scale which makes the practice way worse.

Re: Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

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"With a bomb dropped once every 62 minutes, the equivalent of three football fields of reef are destroyed each year, according to Williams." That doesn't sound right.

I love the American measurement units. How many bald eagles of explosives are needed to destroy three football fields worth of reef?

Re: Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

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Sometimes you learn of an unintended consequence of seemingly good idea wreaking havoc on an ecosystem. I would not put fishing with "plastic bottles filled with explosives" into that category.

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    > Otherwise how would people have cheap fish?
I will offer a counterpoint. Japan has extensive fishing within its territorial waters (economic exclusive zone). It has some of the most productive fishing in the world, in part, thanks to the Kuroshio current. Japan does not need to use dynamite fishing, and yet, raw fish prices are incredibly cheap in Japan for a huge variety of fish. Their prices are much cheaper than other highly industrialised nations.

Re: Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

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Those are nothing but excuses. Destroying habitats and the future of fellow fishermen for short-term gain is just selfishness and greed. Desperation is no excuse.

Say that again when your children are starving.

Thanks to these assholes destroying entire fisheries, I might not have to wait long.

Re: Bomb fishing is wreaking havoc on Indonesia's coral reefs

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post #35

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Cast a net or eat tempeh. It being convenient doesn’t mean it’s the only way to do it.

Casting a net is actually one of the less sustainable ways to fish.

Think you might be casting too wide a net there. It certainly can be.
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