Overfishing: The worst and best fish you can eat

We’re emptying the oceans at an alarming rate, and not only that - the fisheries industry endangers other marine animals and entire ecosystems. Is there a way to eat fish sustainably? Or is the only answer to stop eating fish?
#PlanetA​​ #Seaspiracy #Overfishing
Read More:
Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Database:
www.seafoodwatch.org/
Greenpeace red listed fish:
www.greenpeace.org/usa/oceans...
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, State of World Fisheries 2020:
www.fao.org/state-of-fisheries...
What does the MSC mean? By the Marine Stewardship Council:
www.msc.org/what-we-are-doing...
Database of eco labels on fish:
www.ecolabelindex.com/ecolabel...
Special Thanks to: Simon Funge Smith, Jeppe Kolding, Ajith Raj and Sourabh Kumar Dubey for additional interviews.
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[@Mochido89]

As a marine biologist from the global south, this 13 minute piece did a far better job than Seaspiracy to inform about this issue in a nuanced, calm and useful way. Great job!

[@jona_kr5390]

It might be at bit over the top, but the main message is a good wakeup call for most people who do not research themselves or if they do, won't see it that dramatic

[@ryanmckenna2047]

Well said Seaspiracy focused on dramatizing the situation as much as possible, this just gave us the same facts without the emphasis on shaming the certification companies. Although I guess the certification companies do need to be called out.

[@jessicapavelovazolkova8378]

Seaspiracy was highly objective, and we should have a 0 tolerance policy to one of our biggest global problems. Lose the greed

[@SamsonFernendez]

Only selfish bastards would think about receiving critical information in a way that pleases them and doesn't hold them accountable. Not only for food. You can apply that same logic to any injustice in history. Slavery? Check. Rape? Check. Sexism? Check. Eugenics? Check. You name it. Check!

[@hamfranky]

It's wild to me that the European eel is classified as critically endangered, but you can buy it at almost any fish shop or market here in the Netherlands. 10 years ago I remember seeing them by the bucket on markets, but I haven't seen that in a long time. Something tells me that is not out of kindness but rather that there just aren't that many left...

[@kresimirkalman6113]

European eel is full of toxins in fat

[@weichi1882]

The baby eels are caught and raised. Mature eels are not released, and due to the unique life cycle of eels, they are given little chance to reproduce.

[@tagg8233]

We don’t know how most eels reproduce so they can’t be farmed. Instead they are caught shortly after birth in huge quantities and raised on farms. This leads to wild populations getting completely decimated because the young are so easy to catch in entirety. Kinda like if we were to eat turtles it would be so easy to just collect all the babies.

[@jovenaldomingo1123]

Big boat became too degree profit that’s why over fishing the oceans humans buying it has very much part responsibility to protect what they buys 07

[@asbjrn1151]

30 years ago u could lay a steel pipe in any creek in Europe and come back the next day with a pipe full of eels. But not today

[@ramonscholl273]

Eating invasive species is a very good way to contribute to a healthy ecosystem. In the caribbean, the invasive lionfish is killing native fish populations. Catching and eating them is a great way to contribute to the sustainability of the coral reefs while having a nice seafood meal!

[@fixafix69]

Yep. So is deer meat. Of course you shouldn't eat it too often but if no one ate deers we would be in a really bad situation

[@skys6655]

@@fixafix69 ah fuc em, grind it n make dog food

[@oksupra]

@@fixafix69 no..definitely no it’s a lie…

[@schlechtgut8349]

@@fixafix69 better to have wolves

[@chriscarrol9373]

Aperantly they are tasty but the venomous spines are a problem. Alot of care cleaning them is required.

[@FosterBaba]

My new strategy is to look up what invasive species they want removed. They're usually fair game with no size requirement

[@kkon5ti]

Like the lake victoria perch?

[@CristianFotache]

Do you think 7 billion people can just eat invasive species ? If we do that we will wipe out all invasive fish in max 2 days of fishing. What after that ? Solution ? Don't eat fish.

[@moony2703]

Good idea! People can also fund controlling invasive plants species that way as well, I bought a breadboard because it was made from an invasive plant species and it’s amazing.

[@Eseteemece]

I have thought the same thing, there's a lot of invasives species that hurt native fauna and could be controlled by eating them, cutting the demand on cow meat at the same time

[@Black.Spades]

Wels (catfish) is invasive in many places and eats everything it can eat.

[@faizamhabib]

Glad to see someone covering the confusion and lack of information consumers face. I have been trying to live clean and responsible for 7 years and that includes food choiced as well. And I can relate to the confusion about labels and other industry practices. It's best to eat locally farmed and small mackerel has proven been the safest choice for me in my region with limited consumption. There aren't many options here to be adventurous with my seafood

[@Celis.C]

It's starting to rub me the wrong way that finding out which foods do not cause significant harm to the environment or to the human body increasingly requires a PhD in various different fields... How many decades do we have to wait until we can be sure that our food is both healthy and sustainable? And how much longer will we have any food at all?

[@theinfinityithgoofball6368]

😟

[@fixafix69]

Going vegetarian/vegan would legit solve all of your questions

[@Celis.C]

@@fixafix69 what about avocado's? Healthy, good stuff, right? Sadly, its trees drain its environment of water and there are criminal gangs exploiting the profits from the fruit. Sadly, the world isn't quite so simple that changing diet is enough, but I'm definitely avoiding cow meat and dairy.

[@micaelaramallo4308]

We already know how: permaculture

[@prowler1992]

just go vegetarian or vegan. Literally solves 99% and then I just don't fuss about the last 1% much.

[@kevinh3238]

Goverments should take action instead of people alone take action

[@MrYFM2]

They should, but they don't and they choose not to. Why? Because they're either too lazy to solve the issue, or they are getting part of the profits of the fishing industry. In these times, NEVER expect any of the governments throughout the world to make decisions on our behalf that are "for our best interests".

[@daielesign]

yes!! we should demand them to take action once we have started to take the action ourselves too

[@EireSaber]

Ask your local politicians at the next election and vote for the one that cares about this the most and is willing to take action

[@bnk9477]

No... we are so late to the game that people AND Goverments should take action now.....

[@creedreaming]

Honestly, after seeing Seaspiracy on Netflix I was more than shocked. I am vegetarian so seeing things like that only complemented me in my decision not to eat fish at all. It's just cruel what happens to the animals and like the documentary says, there is no sustainable way of industrial fishing because it always harms the environment more than it actually helps. I think the only option, if you really can't or don't want to stop eating fish, is to eat locally caught fish that are not sea fish like trouts for example. Thanks for making this video and also pointing out that the labels placed on packaging are most of the time standing for nothing and cannot be a trusted all the way through. I think if more people knew that those labels are mostly fake, many would think twice about buying fish. So thanks again for raising awareness. We only have one ocean and if it is dead there is no way we can revitalize it.

[@user-kl4qe6ru4y]

I have been vegetarian for more than 15 years. I feel much less guilty about food which we eat to alive too.

[@Maria-EU]

The only ethical way to consume food though is going vegan. Otherwise, your dietary choices still cause suffering to animals. It's just that instead of killing the animal after a few months, you exploit them until they're no longer profitable and that's when they're killed.

[@TheSkystrider]

I mean in grade 5, 25 yrs ago school was teaching us our sea trolling activities were draining the sea of fish and damaging ocean ecosystems esp the fragile and critical coral reefs. Has humanity reduced impact? Nope we've quadrupled it. Humanity of 100yrs from now will hate every single one of us living during the time we destroyed ecosystems and robbed future generations of biodiversity. These topics depress me so much. I don't know what I can do to help. Thx for giving us advice on what kind of seafood to eat.

[@lisasetiawan3552]

I learnt about it too in 5th grade. Wonder why it is still being used despite we already know how bad it is.

[@AshrakAhmed]

@@lisasetiawan3552it's profitable and there's demand for it.

[@sclarin2]

@@AshrakAhmed Absolutely! It ALWAYS comes down to the money

[@bnk9477]

@@lisasetiawan3552 Ask your self. Do I eat fish. I yes....thats why

[@bnk9477]

@@AshrakAhmed Remove demand and profit is gode.

[@mck5549]

The artisanal fishermen in West Africa who have spend centuries fishing sustainably are suffering from European and Asian trawlers that are emptying the ocean mercilessly

[@KostasExomanidis]

All right, although you made it even complex, you gave me/us a sufficient insight into how to find fish caught in a way less harmful to environment.

[@jessicapavelovazolkova8378]

If you actually care, wouldnt you just take the MINOR inconvenience to your daily food choices and not eat sentient animals from the sea at all?

[@amartin8608]

I wish this video will change the mind of people who eats fishes without thinking what will be the consequences

[@veganpotterthevegan]

The crazy thing is that it's all terrible and it's easy to just not eat fish at all

[@gladiatorgamer9502]

@@veganpotterthevegan I dont like eating but I eat fish like salmon and cod when i feel like it as I dont care about the environment.

[@rainjaydd8213]

@@gladiatorgamer9502 shame that's so sad

[@gladiatorgamer9502]

@@rainjaydd8213 ??

[@cmichaels9544]

We need to consume less of everything. And I mean less of EVERYTHING including products and services. Best thing to do is not eat fish. If you don't like meat then cut that out your diet as well. I was basically a carnivore and couldn't live without animal protein but when I started to see the environmental disaster that is getting protein to my plate, I stopped eating 100% of fish and cut my animal consumption by around 80%. Now, I eat a lot of legumes, high protein grains and other foods that have much lower environmental impact.

[@_Miguelx_]

That’s wassup

[@martins3885]

And what about overpopulation? Everyone wants to live like average American.

[@cmichaels9544]

@@martins3885 100% agree. But if you say we need to curb population growth, you are seen as some sort of biggot. I do think populations should be reduced for the good of nature and the people left behind. Humans are thriving. We have around 5 billion more people than we did 70 years ago but we cannot say that the other living creatures are thriving. Other than the animals we have domesticated

[@Namena33]

Exactly, there is no good list of fish to eat, the best fish to eat is basically just no fish. I congratulate your change to cutting down animal products. I’m a vegetarian, I don’t drink milk and I rarely eat eggs nowadays. It’s not that hard, plant based food are just as delicious when done right. Also they smells fresh and is easier to cook. People just is not used to eating them that’s all.

[@ashgraffidee2868]

Thats basically what i did. I anyway didn't eat a lot of fish and meat before and last year I just cut it out of my diet almost completely. I stopped eating meat, and if i want fish every couple of months, i resort to freshwater fish that is grown where i live (trout, catfish). I know this isn't for everyone, but honestly, 99% of the time i do not have any cravings at all and do not feel that my quality of living diminished. Another gamechanger for fish lovers could be Aquaponics, seems like a sustainable technique for growing fish and growing plants, unfortunatly it is not widely spread yet, at least in Europe.

[@bluedolphinalliance6510]

What rang true for me was to start eating smaller fish that reproduce faster, an Orange Roughy doesn't repoduce or breed until their 40 yrs.old. When you tell that it takes 7 lbs. of by catch to produce 1 lbs. of Salmon, most folks get their back up cause they think your taking something away from them. Your way they get many more flavors to chose from. A SEAFOOD WATCH PARTNER.

[@jessicapavelovazolkova8378]

Disturbing how you talk about them as a food source rather than sentient beings that experience emotion. Im sure higher intelligence extra terrestrials would talk the same way about us, wouldnt you love being 'their fish'

[@epitome2900]

@@jessicapavelovazolkova8378 true imagine me saying,well ill eat a human baing at 35 as its reproduces that time,about 20-30 lbs will do..........isnt that weird?

[@dkgong]

Ever since I watched the Netflix documentary Seaspiracy, I've greatly curtailed my seafood consumption.

[@somerandomfella]

Now watch Cowspiracy and cut down on steak lol.. it's the combined major cause of emissions.

[@dkgong]

@@somerandomfella I'm deliberately avoiding watching it because I love steak too much. lol

[@tedmoy]

I need to look that up. Thank you!🤗

[@gigiwhat9159]

@@somerandomfella no fossil fuel burning is and Cattle is part of the natural carbon cycle

[@Gaming_Vegan_Ape]

@@gigiwhat9159 the dairy and meat industries emissions are more than all transportation combined...

[@umamurali7872]

I feel proud that i belong to a generation of south indian vegitarian family. without any fuss we have been weaned only on vegitarian food. And there are many people like us. Hopefully we all continue to be 😊

[@spulwasser]

I'm a vegan and I love Indian food😚👌

[@NoRiceToEat]

Yess. I am a proud Indian vegetarian too! Let's lead the revolution for sustainable food and let's protect our fellow animals

[@harshvardhanbanerjer6672]

This chanel deserves a lot more views and subscribers

[@xenabellarosepoolreedzilla4405]

Thanks for the information! Truly planet changing and for the better, never doubting your quality content, and always so happy that through the horrors that you have to report, you always leave the common person with choices on how they can best help out, thank you!!!

[@kalleidoskop2]

This channel is fantastic! Really high quality and well researched videos on relevant topics, thank you!

[@CptShiba]

Very thankful for the content you guys are producing. It's really helping me understand the scope of different environmental issues, and more importantly, helping me understand what I can do about it.

[@libconservative3481]

This is a first world problem. From where I come from most people eat the cheapest seafood - tilapia, milkfish... only rich people can afford tuna or any other type of fish...

[@staplesyo2391]

I just fish myself and I don’t have to worry about if it is ethically sourced or not

[@jessicapavelovazolkova8378]

Yeah, definitely more ethical when its you dragging it out of it's environment with a hook through its mouth. God forbid someone else doing it for you...??

[@nebroskitheraut6705]

Top notch quality....I hope you guys grow more

[@DWPlanetA]

Thanks! Spread the word :)

[@anishraj1143]

@@DWPlanetA culture meat only can save aquaculture in future

[@MrTwenty20video]

Good reporting. Thank you.

[@javierortizmir7873]

Great quality in a short video! I also liked the sound/music!

[@patriciaalves5613]

Thank you so much for this! I have not been eating a lot of seafood because of the complexity which I know is a good thing, but now I can make better decisions when I do. One thing that wasn't mentioned is heavy metals, but I understand that eating smaller fish helps with that and is a more sustainable option.

[@thedesignyard5382]

I run a seafood startup and we only sell from under 10m traceable boats using methods that I like personally. I don’t like any kind of trawling so we don’t sell that. I like gill nets and rod and line, it’s ancient practices. Green peace’s list is not as simple as it seems, the data is often behind the actual trends in fish. Personally I prefer using methods that protect the ocean bed and disregard selling X and Y because if you know the industry you can’t call down and say I want X species.

[@bnk9477]

In 50 years 80% of the number of fish has dissapered. If that fact does not make you stop eating fish, humanity is doomed.

[@everythingtechpro007]

It's the fishing companies that promote fake labled environmently friendly fishing to promote people not to question them.

[@martins3885]

We are done anyway time to mitigate everything was 50 years ago now it's just consequences .

[@bnk9477]

@@martins3885 Agree:(

[@hellatze]

Farm for fish exist. Doomed what ? Do human need fish ?

[@bnk9477]

@@hellatze No,but if humans do not react when they se an emergency, we are doomed;)

[@asadbaig4422]

Thanks for the indepth review!

[@michaelmcdonald4021]

I worked as a commercial fisherman in south Florida for close to 20 years. From personal experience shrimping(bottom trawling has the highest bi catch, sometimes we had as high as 90 percent- that's right 10 percent shrimp) long lining we may of had 10 to 20 percent bi catch.(bottom long lining grouper/snapper) fish traps were perhaps the worst- I believe outlawed at least in the U.S. My overall fishing profession was handling for snapper(mostly yellowtail) this is one line, one hook, one fish(by far the least by catch, little to none) I did not like the fact that you are permitted to fish during spawing season(for any fish) one thing to remember is our laws are strict but other countries we buy seafood from may have no restrictions(we assume they play by the rules right?) With big money rules ARE changed all the time. Do they us turtle excludes in Mexico? If you're a poor Mexican shrimp that may be big bucks to feed your family. Does the government have the money and resources to enforce it? It can be complicated and overwhelming. You go to a seafood restaurant in florida which advertisers fresh local seafood then come to find out they only serve one or two local seafood dishes.(just ask to look in the back of the restaurant and you willing see Styrofoam containers from Mexico, Veniswala, Thailand etc. Other countries especially 3rd world, don't ice or take care of seafood like we do here. The other issue is when a species is no longer legal to be consumed(Goliath grouper etc.) Now we have an over abundance of them and they consume many upon many of other fish, lobster etc. I used to think the same thing with conchs. Ther are places in the Keys that for every step you take thee is a conch, but their illegal, been illegal for 40 plus years? You have to buy them from Bahamas 60 miles away they have plenty thee for some reason (perhaps turtle too)

[@riyadebbarma5959]

I've stopped eating fish for more than 6years thank god my younger self did something good to save the planet. And also it impacted them very much that my family have also stopped eating fish.

[@Tentacular]

Anchovies, sardines, mackerel are good? That's the best news to me, as they're my favourite 😊

[@asilkhan6619]

😮 you explained it flawlessly! Great job👍

[@limbodog]

We really need a central government to certify this sort of thing. An entity that could punish any industry that trying to be deceitful about certifications.

[@randallstephens1680]

No, what we need is decentralized blockchain supply chain tracking.

[@philipb2134]

In some parts of the world, there are strict regulations which prevent overfishing and keep the resource sustainable.. Some fisheries have strict quotas - such as squid or sardines from California; the US imposes strict guidelines on the size of allowble lobsters, females must be thrown back, while Canada limits the catch by restricting the season.

[@knpark2025]

Olive flounders. They are delicious, they were rare, and they were an expensive delicacy until people figured out how to farm them and made them so accessible it became the vanilla (aptly so because natural vanilla is also expensive because there's not enough of it) of sashimi. The only reason eels and bluefin tuna are vulnerable after all efforts to keep their numbers is because we still haven't figured out how do farm them easy enough to replace fishing from the open.

[@DWPlanetA]

Thanks for the comment KN Park. Have you seen our most recent video about fish farming? You can check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jKPWimx3fs-KiKc

[@pgum123gonowplayread4]

A problem where I am from, at least what I have found is that the places with varied types of fish is underrated, and also not everywhere. You go to your local supermarket, about three types of frozen fish only, the same type of frozen fish as the next 20 stores to 50 stores, and then the canned food almost the same

[@emanuelzbeda1420]

LOTS OF QUESTIONS: What about lion fish? They’re a massive problem as an invasive species. What invasive fish should we eat, and how can we sure what we’re eating is actually invasive? What barriers exist to making fish like lion fish an easily accessible alternative?

[@DWPlanetA]

Lionfish can be eaten, but there is a small risk because they might contain ciguatoxins, a problem the U.S. Food and Drug administration has looked into (www.mdpi.com/1660-3397/12/1/88). The general topic of how to determine invasive species and whether it would be beneficial to target and eat them is an interesting one - maybe for a future video! thank you for the feedback :).

[@Wings012]

From what I watched about Lionfish, it's gonna be hard to catch them on a huge industrial scale. They are reef fish and you don't really want to go fucking up the reefs. I think their habitats are also quite shallow. There's plenty of divers going out there to spearfish them, and there's even diving tours you can take in some places where they teach you how to spearfish lionfish. But you can't exactly just dispatch a boat to trawl all the lionfish away even if there was a huge demand. And due to their venomous spines, I'm not sure how viable it is to turn them into processed goods. Chefs and fishermen experiences with them know how to handle them and snip them off, but start bringing these guys into a factory environment and things might get weird.

[@pfx2259]

It’s like telling swimmers not too pee in the pool, never works unless there is a solid dye and watcher in place

[@finncon4399]

The best way to know if you’re sea food is sustainable is to catch it directly yourself.

[@moritzkeller4502]

You know how the saying goes: Roses are red, Violets are blue; don't eat seafood.

[@AshrakAhmed]

because it will eat you too!

[@ashr1303]

Please make your channel in Instagram as well and upload all your videos to share.

[@senthilkumarn4u]

Great info.. thanks

[@ninadsentinel]

I think the more sustainable way of eating fish or any non veg food is to eat it in a conservative fashion. In India most of the households follow a norm of eating fish or meat only twice a week. Also there is a period of 30-40 days between August to September where people resort to vegetarian diet completely as part of religious practice but it helps to replenish the population of fish during this breeding period. However with education people are loosing touch with all these native ideas and eating meat almost all the time even in India 😞

[@nurafsar7583]

You are doing great job. Carry on.

[@annawijen6738]

What a clear and accessible video about overfishing!

[@ryanmckenna2047]

Great video, thanks!

[@unstoppableExodia]

For people that have access to a big pond they can use aquaculture at home to raise sustainable fish and crustaceans to eat. It’s not an easy option available to everyone but for those who can it might mean cheap fish that’s guilt free.

[@123goldenlily]

I wonder what the impact of sustenance fishing is compared to commercial fishing? 🤔

[@pouya8766]

I never ate ocean fish never tried it because I just ate Walking Catfish and Tilapia it's actually good! Edit: Ocean animals, like Octopus, Squid, and Shrimp.

[@hylacinerea970]

wonderful video, i love how at no point it shames individuals for consuming seafood

[@John_Smith_86]

Or maybe just avoid consuming food, that may be the safest option

[@_Miguelx_]

😂😂

[@AshrakAhmed]

I buy whatever I can afford to eat and on sale, I don't have a money tree I can shake so when it's too expensive it's gone off the menu. And I bet a lot of minimum wage worker do the same.

[@sclarin2]

Don't eat, drink, or breathe for they may all cause cancer and repress someone or something.

[@JJs_playground]

*Seaspiracy* really opened my eyes to the impact of industrial fishing. The amount of by-catch is unbelievable. and the shots of the sick fish in the aqua farms really disgusted me and turned me off fish. But i have to admit 2 months later and I've mostly forgotten about the documentary and back to eating fish.

[@thesilentone4024]

They should have crops on top of the sae and some on boats that get feed of the fog from the sae and use the poop from the fish to help plants grow

[@thecrippledpancake9455]

Good luck with that

[@thesilentone4024]

@@thecrippledpancake9455 ah if they don't after horticulture classes in college ill start 1 on a lake somewhere lol.

[@mikecorbeil]

@DW Planet A : Regarding the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), I wonder how they can expect commercial fishing businesses to be trustworthy with respect to providing EVIDENCE that they properly remove and therefore release by-catch. How can MSC be absolutely certain that they're not be lied to in this regard? As for bottom trawling, this was extremely bad off of the eastern coasts of the US and Canada and it wasn't about flounder or the other species that you referred to in this video, but cod and surely haddock, possibly pollock as well. It's why the govts of both countries banned commercial fishing, with deep trawling anyway, many years ago off of the eastern coastlines. Cod can continued to be fished for, but only with recreational fishing using fishing poles and reels, along the US coast anyway. I don't know how that is with Canada, but I imagine that people in the Maritime provinces, plus Labrador/NewFoundland are permitted to do this recrreational fishing or maybe commercially, but using rods and reels, not deep trawling. During the 1960s and surely into the 1970s, people who recreationally went deep sea fishing off of the coast of Massachusetts, f.e., regularly caught haddock and sometimes halibut, but that has pretty much totally ended. I read that either not all of the cod got captured with deep trawling, but read during the 1990s that enough cod had migrated to other areas due to this kind of fishing. There were cod during the 1990s, for a boat I went out on was from Hyannis Port along the southern shoreline of Cape Cod and we headed out to Georges Bank, where we caught plenty of cod and some pollock as well as sharks, only occasionally for those two fish, BUT not a single haddock, which like cod, is a bottom dwelling fish, and also no halibut. During the 1960s and 1970s, Atlantic wolffish, which a guy I knew often called the Atlantic catfish, and cusk were regularly also caught deep sea fishing, but we got not a single one during the trips I went out on during the 1990s. Deep trawling is surely the reason for ALL of this, though not the cod, given that there's still enough for recreational fishing, and a little bit of pollock, though we caught extremely few of those during the 1990s.

[@DWPlanetA]

Thank you for your comment @mikecorbeil. In this case, we can only refer to the information on the MSC certification process. Certification of a fishery is conducted by independent organizations authorized by the MSC to assess fisheries and, if granted, is valid for five years. This is followed by annual follow-up audits by independent assessors. After five years, the fishery must undergo a full recertification process.

[@thedesignyard5382]

They should consider gear type. Bottom trawling is bad for the seabed. Also the stock level of cod is trending down but it’s still marked as ok to eat.

[@youkofoxy]

My experience with catching fish in rivers says that or you catch less fish or you catch fish you don't want.

[@Aplusinskal]

I use WWFs fish- (and meat) list when shopping for food in store, checking where product comes from, how it's fished etc.. Bummed and terrified that I rarely every come home with any kind of sea food :( Fishing just isn't sustainable (yes, stating the obvious, I know)

[@AmjadhIsmail]

Researched so much about sustainable fishing but didn't mention pole and line fishing of maldives? 🤔🤔

[@dhrgkbqxtjr2743]

Rarely ever eat fish because even as a kid I knew this was disgustingly unsustainable. When children say fish is gross, parents should listen. Whenever I eat fish it's mostly because someone else made it the only meal option.

[@aleyarb4040]

Note : Most of the overfishing problems are mentioned for Saltwater fish but none or very little about Freshwater fish. So you don't have to cut fish entirely from your diet, just opt more for Freshwater species like tilapia or catfish. Cause crops also contribute to climate change but what are we gonna do, eat rocks?

[@widodoakrom3938]

Freshwater so easy to be farming and for they food u can use substitute food such as BSF larvae

[@IAmebAdger]

Mussels I think. I never heard them causing a fuss

[@jessicapavelovazolkova8378]

Most crops are fed to livestock so we (you) can have meat. Take soy, about 80%. Also, I dont have an ethical issue cutting a tomato in half... a sheep or cow? Well yeah

[@colinvanful]

honestly i dont eat sea food any more , due to plastic content in the fish ! . i still eat fresh water fish when it is there to catch [by rod only ] but even now i see the fish stocks in river's where i live are endangered when i was a young man you could not count the brown trout in our local river but now you can count them on one hand .

[@user-ie4tt1xp7j]

Why can't fisheries sell bycatch? Is it the same problem, as with monoculture? Like, it's more sustainable to grow multiple crops but it's way more profitable to grow one "expensive" culture.

[@Wolfram___]

They sell it but you need to be as close to the source as possible to get it since shipping isn't worth it, in mediterrenean countries you usually can.

[@Robdontstop68]

Aquabounty is the way to go…asking my local seafood markets to carry it(salmon especially)

[@naloisgodking1139]

I totally agree with everything you’ve said , but please don’t call spearfishing ‘harpooning’

[@mimovil8730]

I legit that the tuna she was offered at that place was bluefin, because bluefin costs an arm and a leg.

[@frogbear02]

as sad as it is, a lot of this info doesnt help much when you learn that its normal to lable fish species as something generic in a store, like "red snapper" is very rarely actually red snapper, for example..

[@shorton6707]

Make it simple. Eat seafood certified by the BAP (Best Aquaculture Practices) or the ASC (Aquaculture Stewarship Council). These groups are in the field, certifying farms and processing plants. They have rigorous standards for quality and sustainability. Monterrey Bay never leave their offices.

[@roderickfiske4769]

Are supermarkets labels to be trusted & why does fish bought from them have no taste ?

[@veganpotterthevegan]

How can I do less terrible, terrible things to reduce guilt, but still cause harm?

[@_Miguelx_]

🤷‍♂️

[@hrushikeshavachat900]

The fish which can be farmed using a plant based diet, can be combined with agriculture, going for an aquaponics system. This will allow to increase profits while also allowing to contribute to the sustainable farming.

[@phannguyen8824]

why there is no international rule to forbid such devastating fishing methods like trawling

[@vl9322]

only fish i eat is Porgy from ocean and trout from river and i catch them both myself , i know fish i catch are in season i know size and catch limits and if i want to stay longer and have we can always catch and release. when you try wild trout vs farmed trout youll see how much better wild trout is and if you follow regulations in your state you actually helping fish population, your license fee and trout stamp fee goes back directly to conserving those fisheries and they are restocked every year

[@rogerumberto6085]

I feel bad cause I'm one of those people who watch documentary about over fishing and then proceed to crave seafoods then forget all about the documentary

[@uruvilaathakarjanan9996]

From young, educating fishing communities from all over the world is the 1st big step every government needs to take if you need changes to happen.

[@karenbaird7402]

Video of sustainability of soy foods and what’s your best sustainable options Wish they a soy based fish substitute

[@JJs_playground]

They were telling us move away from red meat and easy seafood, now they are telling us don't eat seafood. Humanity has really messed up our world / environment.

[@aleyarb4040]

Lmao true and crops also contribute to climate change and we should all just eat rocks.

[@sclarin2]

@@aleyarb4040 Indeed it would be best for the environment if all the humans just died so no food for anybody.

[@S.Alj97]

In my opinion I think this can be in the hand of the industry to change people perspective when it comes to fish especially to big fish like tuna, salmon kingfish and many more I think many companies can make a boneless canned disk of white fish meat similar to canned tuna or canned salmon and instead of naming it canned boneless sardines it can be names boneless white fish chunks of steaks I think it will be more appealing sold next to the canned tuna and salmon people will be more drawn to trying it

[@jetblackstar]

"did this help you decide what to eat" No. It really didn't. But that's not your fault. It mostly highlights this is a massively ingrained complex problem. I think "asking questions" is a very good idea. It makes sellers think twice and ask further up the chain. I can't even eat crab now because I won't know if they cut their claw tendons and kept them alive for transport. And crab is prolific. I'm going to have to get my fishing rod out :P

[@Webexplr]

I try my best to choose my food wisely.. but still imo this doesn't help at all

[@SurapholKruasuwan]

Thanks

[@nerdlingeeksly5192]

If you widen your seafood pallet the unwanted fish caught in the wild won't go to waist meaning each catch is more profitable and less catches need to be made.

[@spookyshark632]

One of the interviewees looks a lot like Jeremy Wade.

[@strollingthroughparadise353]

Also, tuna has an unhealthy amount of mercury as a big fish. And I watched a video recently that investigated the salmon farming in the Baltic Sea which is very contaminated as well as the salmon farms using antibiotics so strong to spray on the fish that the workers were shown wearing protective gear! And the feed that is used is also contaminated by the feed used that is made with small eels that are mixed with an additive that is approved for animal consumption by not for human consumption and is stored in the fat of the salmon which eat it. And on and on.

[@hildaelson4203]

I think I’m going to start raising my own school and fish one when I need to eat.

[@scooter979represent]

Well just watching the first 5 min I hunk to my self well I don’t eat anything from fresh water or ocean water so yeah it’s not that hard have not ate anything from any form of water for 20 years

[@aggron1202]

It is in general better to eat not to much fish because of the ocean polution we consume heavy metals too, that are consumed by the fish.

[@tomkelly8827]

There are ways to create an abundance of algae to feed plankton, shrimp, small and large fish. It is called Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion. OTEC. It creates an upwelling of nutrient rich cold bottom water to warm lifeless surface water in the deep open ocean. It creates more places for life to flourish on earth and an abundance of seafood. I want to see more of this happening in collaboration with fish farms.

[@rahimsvoice]

If the labels are not trustworthy then what's the point?

[@mck5549]

Why is trawler fishing not outright banned?

[@phimolenacukh]

Global vast majority consists of two dominating group: low class and mid class. And these 2 communities are mostly eat low priced fish with high sustainability rate such as sardine, catfish, carp, and pangasius. Sooo... sorry to say but i, we, cannot relate to (almost) the whole no fish campaign🤣

[@phimolenacukh]

How do we evn purchase those elite fishes, local market doesnt evn provide em and fancy restaurants only exist at big cities

[@Illlium]

*laughs in economic crisis*

[@Fish-mc2gs]

well now I know to ask at my favorite sushi restaurant where the fish comes from. Now I'm so hungry for something that won't kill the environment.

[@_Miguelx_]

How’s is it helping if the fish is already dead? Not saying this to be mean, I’m just actually curious.

[@Suavocado602]

@@_Miguelx_ it helps by reducing demand. That one fish may already be dead, but if customers aren’t buying it then neither will the restaurants. Enough of that will lead to the fishers looking for different fish.

[@_Miguelx_]

@@Suavocado602 Thank you. I think I understand.. it’s definitely gonna take millions of people to stop buying fish for sure.

[@AshrakAhmed]

good luck

[@sclarin2]

@@_Miguelx_ which will absolutely NOT happen. I would love it if humanity cared that much but most people are too self absorbed to give a crap and will happily turn a blind eye or make an excuse until it's too late. I see a lot of misplaced faith in humanity in this comment section

[@srakadrisky]

You are promoting seawatch literary the theme of the seaspiracy documantary which u used in the begining of the video. They showed how seawatch is basicley a label with no meaning! All they want is money they dont inspect the fishers they just sell there label!

[@asbjrn1151]

Sounds like there is a problem of interest when it comes to the sustainability labels being distributed, because the people behind the labels makes money from giving seafoodproducts their label. If they actually start rejecting more seafoodproducts because they don't do well enough, they would be making a lot less money. I conclude that seafood is not sustainable no matter what unless we are talking seashell. Aquaponics is the way forward.

[@ryuugakuseijowo7634]

Overfishing is usually done by big fish company. Dont buy from them. Just go to low scale traditional fisherman. It's also help them to survive from covid economical impacts. In addition, MSC is just company that looks for profit. Certification is new profitable opportunity when everyone concerns about environment. But look the result, see ForestSC, no different fron MSC. They say it's sustainable but just during audit or surveillance times. Companies can easily fool their fulfillment principles.

[@nilnil8411]

Most people don't care for the environmental impacts, it's the cost efficient one that usually drives the sales.

[@mottyk8491]

Do away with bottom trolling and you'll fix 90% of the problem One supper tanker can do 5+ years of damage in one go around

[@my1166]

We all should be responsible consumers, but governments have the responsibility to enforce sustainable fishing! Just recognise the problem, gather a group of creative people, give an assignment to find solutions and work on it!

[@atharvasawant4568]

I eat only prawns ( only farmed )

[@iamwhatiam87]

The best fish for me would be the ones swimming right next to my house, being more self sustainable is the way to save the planet