Overfishing: Oceans Are Dying

Overfishing takes place when the fish are captured at a faster rate than they are able to reproduce.  Today, 90 percent of the sea species at the top position in the marine ecosystems food chain or biggest predators, such as tuna, cod, sword fish and sharks have practically been eliminated or are in a situation of critical decline. The result is an

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Currently we have already depleted 90 per cent of apex predators that inhabit the oceans worldwide. Oceans have become floating slaughters of wild marine fauna much more cruel than abattoirs of domestic animals on land. What we would never tolerate in these places of horror is actually taking place in the oceans on wild species: socially complex and intelligent species such as whales can last up 45 minutes to die after being shot by an explosive harpoon on their backs,  baby harp seals are skinned most of them alive, sharks,  millions of years of earlier existence than human, are mutilated for their fins and thrown still alive at sea every day, dolphin, orcas, small cetaceans, and many others are captured in violent hunts, splitting up strong family links to satisfy the increasing demand from marine parks and  human entertainment.

Preserve and conserve diversity of all marine wildlife, from large marine mammals to tiny plankton, is crucial for our own survival. This is not an attitude for the animal right but a vital stand for life in this planet and future generations, oceanic and terrestrial.

The following countries are collaborating in the slaughter of wild marine species and in the depletion and unbalance of marine ecosystems, putting at risk the fragile ecosystem that support us:

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Canada for the barbaric slaughter of thousands of baby harp seals, 42 per cent of which are skinned still alive, for neglecting the serious threats caused by climate warming on polar bears habitat and other animals also dependent on ice  for their survival, for permitting trophy hunts of endangered species and for bringing  wild salmon and cod population at collapse.

Flag image courtesy of 4 International Flags Japan for the annual illegal slaughter of endangered fin and minke whales and other threatened whales in violation of a commercial moratorium in a Whale Sanctuary established international en May, 1994. Furthermore, Japan in violation of the Antarctic Treaty, in violation of the Convention of International Trade of Endangered Species and in contempt of an Australian Federal Court. Japan is also supporting the millionaire industry of marine parks that feeds an annual cruel slaughter of 23000 dolphins in Taiji.
Flag image courtesy of 4 International Flags Norway for resuming commercial whaling though a loophole in the regulation of the International Commercial Whaling
Flag image courtesy of 4 International Flags Greenland for the largest world slaughter after Japan of hundreds of endangered fin and minke whales, for the slaughter of hundreds of small whales and baby belugas, for the brutal ‘aboriginal hunt’ that has exceeded quotas widely bringing fin whales at the brink of extinction.
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Spain for its brutal fishing fleet on wild marine life in Mediterranean and oceans worldwide, for being the fifth country in the world and the first in Europe in shark fishing and shark fin trade to Asiatic market, for overfishing indiscriminately without respecting size and quota, for eluding programs that  enforce protection of sharks and other species critically endangered such as bluefin tuna, for encouraging shark meat using false labelling and deliberately misinform consumers, for promoting fishing sector and for exploiting millionaire and illegal fishing agreements with Africa.

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Iceland for resuming commercial whaling despite of an international moratorium that prohibits commercial whaling after two decades halt on whaling.

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Salomon Islands for the hunt of hundreds of dolphins in the South Pacific to sell to dolphinariums, last selling on August, 2009. A Sea Shepherd teamfrom New Zealand documented the conditions that the dolphins are enduring in the holding pens in the Solomon Islands.

Flag image courtesy of 4 International Flags Faeroe Islands for the slaughter in name of tradition of hundreds of pilot whales and any other whale spotted from land. As any other slaughter, this is widely considered ‘not necessary’.
Namibia Namibia for beaten thousands of baby fur seals every year considered by the government as a competitive threat for their fishing industry.
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St. Lucia and St. Vincent and the Grenadines for the killing (not regulated by IWC) of humpbacks whales, Pilot Whales, Shortfinned Pilot Whale, Pygmy Whale and Spinner dolphins and market the meat as "Caribbean beef", for being bought by the Japanese fishing industry.
Flag image courtesy of 4 International Flags China for bringing to extinction sharks for their traditional shark fin soup, for its macabre torture of any species in this planet, China must be mentioned as a cruel country.
Flag image courtesy of 4 International FlagsFlag image courtesy of 4 International FlagsFlag image courtesy of 4 International Flags Poland, Norway, Namibia, Finland, Greenland and Korea for paying bloody money for the dead of thousands of wild animals to killer countries like Canada.

Aboriginal subsistence whaling

Canada grants whaling to various Inuit groups around the country.

The United States permits to Alaskan natives Inupiat the hunting of Bowhead and Gray whales in Alaskan waters and grants to Makah tribe to resume whaling.

Russia grants to Chukotka Autonomous Okrug tribe under IWC regulation to take up to 140 Gray Whales per year from the North-East Pacific

Indonesia is permitted to hunt some Cachalots and dophins and several species of sharks.

Other slaughters

Hunters for their disgrace hobby of killing any wild animal.

 


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