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Most of this comes from a single type of ship waste: "Half of the great Pacific garbage patch is made up of fishing nets, by weight, according to a report publ
by tomweingarten 7y ago
Most of this comes from a single type of ship waste:
"Half of the great Pacific garbage patch is made up of fishing nets, by weight, according to a report published last year in Scientific Reports."
- hanniabu 7y agoIt'd be great if fishers needed to be checked for how many nets they have on board and then checked when they arrive and then be fined for the difference.
- amelius 7y agoOr only allow certified nets, and make them cost so much that you'll never want to dump them in sea.
- hanniabu 7y agoAlso valid, but in this case you'll still need to check their ships before they leave. Though I guess the cost of the nets could help pay for these checks. I imagine in both cases the ships would just have a boat meet them out at sea with additional nets so they either don't need to pay the fine for nets lost or don't need to buy expensive certified nets.
- amelius 7y ago> I imagine in both cases the ships would just have a boat meet them out at sea with additional nets so they either don't need to pay the fine for nets lost or don't need to buy expensive certified nets. I don't think they would go through that much trouble just for not bringing a net back home. In any case, you could also put an ID or name on a net, just like a license-plate. Also, having nets without certification would be a crime, so that boat waiting at sea would be in problems if caught.
- irrational 7y agoSo the ocean is being overfished and is being polluted by fishing. The clear answer is to ban fishing. Though, as someone who dislikes all seafood, this is easy for me to say.
- StavrosK 7y agoSeafood haters unite! You're the only other person I've ever found who doesn't like seafood, I feel like we should form a club or something.
- pluc 7y agoThere are dozens of us
- detritus 7y agoSmells like death to me.
- jdnenej 7y agoMost raw meat smells disgusting.
- reggintoggaf 7y agoRaw horse is tasty.
- viraptor 7y agoFresh fish has barely any smell. You won't smell fish in a reasonable quality sushi train place for example. It's only if you don't preserve it well for hours that it starts to stink.
- StavrosK 7y agoPersonally, I don't mind fish, they smell and taste like nothing to me. I hate crustaceans/etc because they look disgusting, basically cockroaches of the sea. I can't understand how people look at them and still eat them (obligatory XKCD here https://www.xkcd.com/1268/ https://www.xkcd.com/1268/).