Enough of trawl fishingdestroys anything with and devastated marine ecosystems. In a Shock video made by National Geographic you see all this, with terrified marine animals who try to escape the nets.
A shadow of destruction is approaching, and all the creatures on her journey are desperately frantic to avoid it, fleeing to save her life. But, however fast they can go, they can’t overcome it. It approaches more and more until they swallow them.
No, it is not the narrative of an apocalyptic scene, it is what happens with train fishing: the narrated scene is taken from ‘Ocean with David Attenborough‘, rare movie just published in which it is highlighted what happens when putting this into practice devastating fishing method
What is train fishing and why it is so destructive
Travel fishing is a fishing technique with which a ship drags one heavy iron network on the seabedcapturing out on a limb Whatever you meet on her journey.
This fishing technique has been defined by scientists “Navy deforestation” since, to capture fish, devastated the seabed and contributes to the production of carbon emissions from the latter.
Is a Type of unsustainable fishingwhich over time is plundering our seas at impressive rhythms. The consequences of this exploitation are devastating. Also because in the train networks not only the fish end, but also sea turtles, dolphins and other species of the sea, victims of accidental catches.
Greece was the first EU country to ban it in protected marine areas. While in Italy it is allowed only in the protected area of the Egadibut too many are the recorded infringements or the illegal activities discovered.
It is difficult to imagine a more expensive way to fish – David Attenborough thunders, who made the movie – over three quarters of the fish of a trawling fishing could be thrown away
In fact these boats usually fish only one specieslike cod, eglefino and Halibut, while everything else is rejected at sea. Pure destruction, without if and without but.
The movie
The number of Animals killed unnecessarily by trawl fishing It was the thing we found most distressing
states Keith Schleyco-regista and executive producer of the documentary at Silverback Films
The authors had not been able to find clear movie fisheries, so they had to find a way to make a video on their own.
And to do this, they obtained the permission to mount some cameras on the networks of a commercial fishing boat.
We didn’t really want to film, because this would have meant getting in touch with the destructive process
But the team decided that People had to see what really happened. They also resumed the dredging of the scallops with the scientists of the Marine Biological Association who were studying their impacts, and they agreed to make the films available to both dredging and train fishing available to scientists.
The video shows not only i Desperate attempts of the sea creatures to escape the fishing boatbut also close images of their bodies that twist after being downloaded to the fishing bridge.
Some elements were even too brutal to be included in the final assembly.
There are some terrible shots of crabs that are crushed because the draga has these terrible teeth
The full video will be previewed on National Geographic Saturday June 7th at 9:00 pm and available in streaming global the following day, on the occasion of the World Oceans dayup Disney+ And Hulu.
Revive our ocean launched one petition asking for definitively put the word ‘fine’ to train fishing in protected marine areasis available here.
Sources: National Geographic / National Geographic / YouTube
