What is by-catch? Is tuna safe for dolphins?

Here’s one of the most shocking things people (including the film’s own director) learn from Netflix. Sea piracyA: If you do not eat shark fins or dolphins, do not eat tuna or shrimp. Reason for which? One word a euphemism for bycatch, a species term meaning that one animal must die in order for humans to eat it, and another must be thrown back into the ocean (often dead), even if all animals deserve a peaceful stay in their homes.

What is by-catch? and why is the bycatch problem?

The fishing industry adheres to the term “by-catch” in the same way that the meat industry tries to claim that it “captures” animals (although in fact we know that they hammered), and hunters try to use the terms “hunting animals” and “those whose heads I want to hang on the wall” as synonyms. In fact, by-catch is the fishing industry’s shady, banal way of treating hundreds of thousands of its invisible victims: dolphins, sharks, sea turtles, whales, octopuses, rays, seals, birds and other “non-target” species that end up in fishing nets or get entangled in them – for example, when fishing for tuna or shrimp – and are thrown away, leaving for dead.

“One of the most shocking things that most people don’t realize is that the biggest threat to whales and dolphins is commercial fishing. More than 300,000 whales and dolphins are killed each year as a by-catch of commercial fisheries, ”says shepherd captain Peter Hammarstedt in the film.

“[U]up to 40% of all caught marine life is thrown back overboard if it is by-catch, and most of them die without even falling into the water, ”says Sea piracy Directed by Ali Tabrizi.

You’ve probably heard of the annual dolphin massacre in Taiji, Japan. After watching Sea piracy, you will understand that Tai Chi is just the tip of the iceberg. If you eat fish, You funding for the slaughter of dolphins too. In accordance with Sea piracy and Sea Shepherd, for at least the past 30 years, up to 10,000 by-catch dolphins have died each year off the French coast of the Atlantic Ocean – more than 10 times approximately 740 dolphins reportedly killed during last year’s Taiji hunt. (Now extrapolate these statistics and think about what the international scale should be.) So, if you’ve shed tears over the majestic cetaceans killed in Japan’s infamous murder bay, check your conscience and show compassion for all dolphins and all other animals: Please stop eating fish.

Fishing nets, especially trawl nets, do not distinguish: tuna, shrimp, dolphins and sharks are caught and killed in them. Like dolphins, sharks are in danger (including extinction), all due to the tendency of some people to eat. Other fish. “[E]“Fishing is just as bad, if not worse, than shark finning because the shark finning industry is strongly supported in Asia, while all people around the world eat fish,” says shark activist Paul de Gelder in my book. Sea piracy… According to Tabrizi, “[A]at least 50 million sharks are caught in the nets ”as“ by-catch ”.

By-catch: There is nothing accidental about this.

The fishing industry is trying to cope with the “bycatch” – this is whitewashing on top of whitewashing:

“AT [fishing] the industry will refer to by-catch as accidental catch, but there is nothing accidental about by-catch. This is taken into account in fisheries economics, says Captain Hammarstedt.

Then the industry forces others bluewash for this. Enter the “Dolphin Safe” labels.

Is tuna safe for dolphins?

To understand the “by-catch” and the internationally recognized label for “dolphin-safe” seafood, Sea piracy turns into a fishery in Iceland: within one month, this “small fishery in one small part” of the country caught 269 porpoises, about 900 seals and about 5,000 seabirds, all as “by-catch”. Imagine this carnage on a global scale. And it gets worse – Tabrizi found that the same fishing was awarded for its “sustainable” fishing methods. So he did what any vigilant documentary filmmaker would do: he plunged deeply into a scandal.

“What about eco-friendly labels like dolphin-safe tuna?” Tabrizi asks Captain Hammarstedt.

Just like “organic,” “free range,” “cage-free,” and other deceptive buzzwords falsely used to sell meat, dairy and eggs, Captain Hammarstedt confirmed what most of us probably knew from the beginning. : There is no dolphin-safe tuna. “[W]We understand that labels often hide what actually happens at sea, ”said Tabrizi Hammarstedt, who knows what really happens on fishing boats. In one case, Hammarstedt’s colleagues apparently encountered tuna fishing vessels that slaughtered 45 dolphins to catch eight tuna fish, which supplied “dolphin-safe” canned tuna.

In one particularly unpleasant Sea piracy interview with Mark J. Palmer of the Earth Island Institute (an organization, in The “Dolphin-Safe” logo) tells Tabrizi something shocking and unusually explicit about the authenticity of the “Dolphin-Safe” tuna. Palmer acknowledges the dizzying conflict of interest between companies and organizations that distribute dolphin-safe and associated labels, and the fishing operations they need to monitor. To get into an interview that is sure to change your mind about eating fish, you’ll have to queue up for a hit new release on Netflix.

The only product truly safe for dolphins and tuna is a product labeled “vegan”.

For those looking on Google “how to cut back on bycatch” or “which brands of tuna are safe?” just look Sea piracyis a movie that finally talks about the whale in the room (that there is no such thing as dolphin-safe tuna or environmentally friendly fishing). Your spicy tuna roll or shrimp cocktail will always cost the lives of dolphins, whales, sea turtles and other animals – not to mention the equally wonderful and worthy tuna and shrimp will be killed. It is bad news. IN well the news is that brands such as Vegan ZeaStar, The Plant Based Seafood Co., New Wave Foods, Good Catch, and Cavi-art (PETA’s business friend) are revolutionizing seafood by offering vegan fish options.

Longtime favorites like Gardein’s Golden Fishless Filets and Crabless Cakes, and Quorn’s Vegan Fishless Sticks are as delicious as themselves (really) are safe for dolphins and are widely available in supermarket chains and other stores around the world.

Vegan seafood is making waves

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y is an not will be missed. Throw a party where your invitees will drop the fish and go vegan faster than you say “By-catch is bullshit.” Use Teleparty (formerly known as Netflix Party), Houseparty, or Zoom (sign in to your Netflix account, click the Zoom Screen Share button, and hit the play button) so you and your watching friends can chat while you watch a movie. Click below to see more ideas:

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