The documentary everyone is talking about Seaspiracy- here are the highlighted points - Part 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

All the information below has been copied directly from the Seaspiracy official webpage (https://www.seaspiracy.org/facts)

THE OCEANS ARE HOME FOR UP TO 80% OF ALL LIFE ON EARTH 

THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR SEAS ARE STILL UNEXPLORED 

GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH IS 1.6 MILLION SQ KM 

THE EQUIVALENT OF A GARBAGE TRUCK LOAD OF PLASTIC IS DUMPED INTHE SEA 

EVERY SINGLE MINUTE THERE IS OVER 150 MILLION TONS OF PLASTIC ALREADY FLOATING IN THE SEA 

PLASTIC BREAKS DOWN INTO SMALLER PIECES KNOWN AS MICROPLASTICS, WHICH OUTNUMBER THE STARS IN THE MILKY WAY BY 500x 

700+ DOLPHINS AND WHALES ARE KILLED EVERY YEAR IN TAIJI 

THE TAIJI DOLPHIN DRIVES ARE FUNDED BY THE MARINE PARK ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY 

A TRAINED DOLPHIN IS WORTH UP TO $100,000 

BETWEEN 2000-2015, FOR EVERY 1 DOLPHIN CAPTURED AT LEAST 12 MORE WERE KILLED 

HIGHEST VALUE OF BLUEFIN TUNA: $3,100,000  CONSERVATION STATUS: ENDANGERED 

TODAY ONLY 3% OF PACIFIC BLUEFIN TUNA REMAIN

OVERFISHING PUTS $42 BILLION TUNA INDUSTRY AT RISK OF COLLAPSE 

A MITSUBISHI SUBSIDIARY CONTROLS 40% OF THE WORLDS BLUE FIN TUNA 

THE SHARK FINNING INDUSTRY IS A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY AND SHARKFINS ARE MAINLY SHIPPED TO CHINA 

THE SHARK FINNING INDUSTRY IS OFTEN CRIMINALLY INVOLVED 

SHARK FIN SOUP IS WORTH UP TO $100 A BOWL 

SHARKS KEEP THE OCEANS HEALTHY 

FOR THE FIRST TIME SHARKS ARE GOING EXTINCT BECAUSE OF US

SPECIES LIKE THRESHER, BULL AND HAMMERHEAD SHARKS HAVE LOST UP TO 80-99% OF THEIR POPULATIONS IN THE LAST TWO DECADES 

SEABIRD POPULATIONS HAVE DECLINED BY 70% SINCE THE 1950'S 

SHARKS KILL 10 PEOPLE PER YEAR. COMPARATIVELY, PEOPLE KILL 11,000-30,000 SHARKS ARE KILLED PER HOUR 

APPROX. 50 MILLION SHARKS ARE KILLED EVERY YEAR AS BYCATCH 

STUDIES ESTIMATE THAT UP TO 40% OF ALL MARINE LIFE CAUGHT IS THROWN OVERBOARD AS BYCATCH

AN ICELAND FISHERY IN ONE MONTH KILLED APPROX. 269 HARBOR PORPOISES, 900 SEALS OF FOUR DIFFERENT SPECIES AND 5000 SEABIRDS 

THE ICELAND FISHERY WAS AWARDEDTHE BLUE TICK BY THE MSC 

THERE ARE OVER 100 DIFFERENT FISHING REGULATIONS ON PAPER FOR REDUCING BYCATCH 

THERE ARE 4,600,000 COMMERCIAL FISHING VESSELS IN THE WORLD 

SEA SHEPHERD HAVE SUNK 13 WHALING AND ILLEGAL FISHING SHIPS AND RAMMED A FURTHER FIVE 

10,000+ DOLPHINS ARE KILLED AS BYCATCH OFF THE COAST OF FRANCE EVERY YEAR 

OVER 300,000 WHALES, DOLPHINS AND PORPOISES ARE KILLED AS BYCATCH EVERY YEAR 

46% OF THE PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH IS FISHING NET

THERE IS ENOUGH LONG LINE SET EVERY DAY TO WRAP AROUND THE PLANET 500x 

SIX OUT OF SEVEN SPECIES OF SEA TURTLES ARE EITHER THREATENED OR ENDANGERED DUE TO FISHING

1,000 SEA TURTLES DIE EVERY YEAR FROM PLASTIC GLOBALLY. IN THE USA, 250,000 SEA TURTLES ARE CAPTURED, INJURED OR KILLED EVERY YEAR BY FISHING (UPDATE: We appear to have repeated an original mistake made on the Sea Turtle Conservancy white paper which revealed that the near-global figure was misattributed to the United States alone. However, this has given us the opportunity to learn new; that the most current worldwide analysis estimates the bycatch of at least 8.5 Million sea turtles in a seventeen-year period - meaning, a shocking ∼500,000 sea turtles every year:) 

OCEAN PLASTIC COMING FROM STRAWS IS 0.03% OF ALL PLASTIC IN THE OCEAN

Just by reading these points it is not difficult to see that if we don´t do something soon we will have nothing left.

The blog song for today is: "Money, that´s what I want"by the Flying Lizards

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