OVERFISHING, HABITAT DESTRUCTION, and FISHING CAPTURE (BYCATCHING) ENDANGER OCEAN FISH : WORLD WILDLIFE FUND

SLOW REPRODUCTION RATE IS ALSO AN ISSUE...  The list is longer than I thought! There are EIGHTY on the endangered list and many more on the threatened list... 

WORLD WILDLIFE FUND PDF FILE REPORT ON ENDANGERED SPECIES

Excerpt: Since 1970, global populations of marine species utilized by humans have halved, with some of the most important species experiencing even greater declines. There are over 400 known endangered marine species linked to human consumption of seafood. With mindful sourcing, you can help protect them for the future. As the world’s largest conservation organization, WWF combines its scientific foundation and global reach to help ensure that our modern food systems meet the needs of people while also respecting nature. Working with the seafood industry for more than 20 years, WWF has helped companies transition seafood supply chains to more sustainable, responsible and traceable operations. Company commitments to sustainability would not be comprehensive without the inclusion of protective measures for our planet’s most threatened species.

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SIREN HERE!  I BARELY EAT ANY SEAFOOD AS IS, BUT NOW I WANT TO AVOID EATING IT AT ALL.  LET THE WHALES HAVE A MEAL! 

WATCHING A SMALL AQUARIUM TANK FISH DIE : AN UNNATURAL AND IMPRISONED LIFE ALONE

Over the years I've become increasingly against home aquariums for fish that grow bigger.  I recently saw a fish that had lived alone in an aquarium die.  It was horrible.  This fish had lived alone for the amusement of the few people who actually even bothered to notice it.  It swum around a background, plastic made-for-aquarium sea weeds and fake castles and such, and awaited feeding.  I would walk by and go eye to eye with it and sometimes move my fingers as if they were fins and the fish would follow.

I heard that this fish had been in the tank for ELEVEN YEARS and was ALONE because he "ATE ALL THE OTHER FISH IN THE TANK." Well in the sea, fish eat fish, but I wondered if perhaps this was because he had not been fed properly.... And was also in a tank TOO SMALL FOR HIM.

HIM ... it could have been a HER.

The fish started laying low to the bottom of the tank, barely upright.

It's eyes were covered in some sort of white film. 

I immediately informed the owner I thought the fish was dying and to contact their aquarium service.

A week later the fish was clearly having trouble fish-breathing, it's gills working hard.

I had not seen air being pumped into the tank.

The walls of the tank had a green-black film on them.

As a result I'm clearly anti-aquarium tank.

Perhaps the small fish that never get too big can have a better tank life than this?

Other fish in the tank.

Real sea weed.

Proper cleaning and feeding and light cycles....

Siren

COLOR ME FISH #4

 

COLOR ME FISH #3

 

COLOR ME FISH #2

 

COLOR ME FISH #1

 

SHOULD WE BOYCOTT EATING FISH CAUGHT BY CHINESE OVER LABOR TRAFFICKING (SLAVERY)? I THINK SO!

Labor Trafficking means that people are tricked into or actually abducted to perform work without being paid, underpaid, or as slaves.  This is a serious issue.  And as much as I hate the idea that fisherman might loose their livelihood, I don't think anyone who thinks of slavery or labor trafficking as serious should be eating these fish. 

According to this broadcast, frozen fish, most fish you eat at fast food restaurants, and fish you buy at certain named stores, probably has been fished by people who are being labor trafficked.  

The investigation includes the fact that some of these people who are forced to labor are gone for a couple years at sea, their families do not know where they are, and they are desperately even sending messages in bottles to be freed.

PLEASE LISTEN TO THIS SPECIAL REPORT WHICH IS BREAKING NEWS TODAY and decide how you will protest!  Contact the stores and restaurants and tell them what you think!

SEA TURTLES CAN TALK! GABRIEL JORGEWICH-COHEN'S RESEARCH PROVES IT and THE ORIGIN OF VOCALIZATION IN ANIMALS

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN : CHATTY TURTLES and THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMAL VOCALIZATION 

Listen to the clicks and grunts at this link.

Excerpt:  Gabriel Jorgewich-Cohen:  I did fieldwork in the Brazilian Amazon with a researcher that published one of these first papers showing that turtles can communicate acoustically, and that inspired me.  So I went back home, and I got a piece of equipment, and I started recording my own pets.  And I discovered that they were producing sounds as well, and the species I had were not known to produce sounds......

TRIPLE THE FISH

DOLPHINS EAT SNAKES! SHOW THEIR TEETH EMIT SQUEALS!

Maybe dolphins just don't want to eat humans?  In this article dolphin feeding shows they are determined and the fish escape swim till it's too late.  But until now scientists didn't know a bottle nosed dolphin would eat a poisonous sea snake.

YAHOO - BUSINESS INSIDER : DOLPHINS GOPROS STRAPPED TO SIDES : FEED EXPOSE! 

This article has videos that were recorded by the gopros strapped to the dolphins.

It says Dr. Sam Ridgway, famous as a dolphin doctor, was excited by this discovery before he died recently.

SPECKLED TROUT

 

GOLDEN CARP

 

BLUE HADDOCK FISH

 

FAT FISH WITH FOOL-YOU EYE

 

UGLY FISH MORE LIKELY TO BECOME EXTINCT BECAUSE PEOPLE LIKE COLORFUL AND FANCY ONES

THE GUARDIAN : THE REEF FISH PEOPLE FIND UGLY MORE LIKELY TO BE ENDANGERED 

Basically, people like colorful fish.

Excerpt:  "There is a need for us to make sure that our 'natural' aesthetic biases do not turn into a bias of conservation effort," said Nicolas Mouquet, a community ecologist at the University of Montpellier, and one of the lead authors of the study.  This discrepancy between aesthetic value and extinction vulnerability could have repercussions in the long run, he said.

BLUE AND GOLD MACKEREL

 

GREEN and GOLD FISH

 

WHITE STRIPED FISH

 

FISHY VALENTINE

 

FISHY RESTUARANT - SWIMMING FISH AROUND YOUR FEET

I wonder how long the wooden chair legs will last?  I guess the idea is that the fish can feed on you - the dry skin on the feet - while you eat fish....  Don't think I could do this.  COULD YOU?