Oceans cover 71% of the earth’s surface, 94% of all life on earth is aquatic and over 50% of the earth’s oxygen is produced there. So we need to take better care of it!
Fun Facts about our ocean friends!
In 2018, approximately 772 billion vertebrates were killed for human consumption on a global scale. Of these, 88.3% were fishes, 11.1% were birds, and 06.% were mammals.
Overfishing of shrimp.
Watch Ali Tabrizi talk about filming the new documentary Seaspiracy | The Peril Facing Our Oceans.
You will learn as many as 2.7 TRILLION (yes, T for trillion) wild aquatic animals are killed every year. Of this number 450 million to 1,000 million are killed to become fish oil or as fish meal which is fed to animals which are killed for human consumption.127 BILLION factory farm raised filled are killed annually. None of these numbers include the turtles, dolphins whales and other marine life ‘accidently’ killed while killing the fish fed to humans and other animals.
Aquaculture: A Sea of Suffering
WTO: 60% of assessed fish stocks are fully exploited & 30% are already overexploited
Despite the undeniable intelligence and biological sophistication of octopuses, more and more effort is being spent in the direction of farming these cephalopods commercially.
Now that humans have killed the fish that eat jellyfish, researchers are looking for ways for humans to eat jellyfish.