#insanefacts

Seaspiracy, the mindblowing documentary that unearthed the inhumane reality of fish farming. Bottom line: decrease your fish consumption, or stop it completely.

Here a list of the most insane facts we learnt from watching it:

Microplastics in the ocean outnumber the stars in the galaxy by 500 times

Phytoplankton absorb 4x more co2 than the amazon rainforest

A garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the sea every minute

Mitsubishi controls 40% of the bluefin tuna trade

99% of scalloped hammerhead sharks have died

Most sharks are killed by bycatch, over 50 million sharks per year

Bycatch isn’t accidental

MSC sustainable seafood is a fraud so is a “dolphin safe” label by Earth Island Institute

10,000 dolphins being killed in France from bycatch every year

46% of the great pacific garbage patch are fishing nets

Plastic pollution campaigners purposely ignore accusing the fishing industry...

Longline fishing nets can wrap around the planet 500x every day

6/7 of turtles species are endangered due to commercial fishing

Plastic straws only account for 0.03% of plastic in the ocean

The biggest issue facing the ocean is the fishing industry

The fishing industry in the gulf of mexico destroyed more animals in a day than the deep water horizon spill did in 3 months

Fishing boats are technological death machines

Fish are vital to keep corals alive

Halibut is less than 1,000 times as abundant as it was in 1830

5 million fish are killed every minute

If fishing trends continue we will see empty oceans by 2048

Oceans are absorbing all the earth’s excess heat, thanks to fish

This is because fish sequester carbon

Ocean is the biggest carbon sink on the planet

Kelp forests store x20 more carbon than land forests 

93% of co2 is stored in the ocean

Trawl nets are so large that they can swallow whole cathedrals or 13 jumbo jets

Bottom trawling wipes out 3.9 billion acres every year = 4,316 soccer fields every minute 

No marine protected areas ban fishing

Sustainable seafood doesn’t exist…

Big environmental NGOs are worried to go against “meat/fish eating” because they could lose supporters 

There is no universal definition for “sustainable” fish

Unilever is a big funder of the Marine Stewardship Council 

80% of MSC income comes from licensing “sustainable seafood” labels

Fisheries are behind murderous crimes..

Your tax money is subsidizing the fish industry

Globally $35 billion dollars subsidize fishing industry

EU fishing fleets are destroying small fishing economies in West Africa

360,000 workers in fisheries have died in 15 years

Decreased fish stocks causing ebola outbreaks in West Africa

Fish farming needs fish feed from wild fisheries..thus it’s also unsustainable

50% of seafood is coming from fish farming

Scottish salmon farming all together produces organic waste the equivalent of the entire population of Scotland each year

38% of world mangroves have been destroyed from shrimp farming