Fishing is one of the most harmful industries. This presentation goes over why fishing is so harmful and provides multiple reasons as to why you should stop eating fish.

1. The Truth about
Fishing

2. The Beginning
● In early 2019, a dead whale was found stranded on the beachside with over 23 kilograms of
plastic waste inside of its stomach.
● In late 2019, one of the largest stranding of whales ever had occurred (337 whales in total),
which was something that the world has never seen before at the time.
● Since 2019, there are 500 times more microplastics in the ocean than there stars in the Milky
Way.

3. Why does this
matter?
● Whales are more important than you think. Every time they come up to breathe, before they
get the air, they fertilise tiny marine plants in the ocean called phytoplankton, which every
year absorb 4 times the amount of carbon dioxide as the Amazon rainforest and generates up
to 85% of the oxygen that we breathe.

4. Whaling
The practice or industry of hunting and killing whales for their oil, meat, or whalebone.
● There has been an international (around the world) whaling ban since 1986 but, there have been some
countries that have done it under the radar but the country that does it in the largest amounts is Japan.
● There is a place called “Taiji”, where each year over 700 dolphins and small whales are murdered in a small
area.
● They do not want you to know that you know about them killing all of these different species of sea life, so
they are watching you everywhere you go, through the telephone, the tv is taking pictures of you, the police
are on you and following you once you arrive at your hotel and everywhere that you go.
● This mass killing camp is the size of a football pitch and do nearly as much harm as the rest of the world
does.

5. Whaling (pt.2)
● What is also fueling this industry, that you may not have thought of, is the water
entertainment industry. Trained, young dolphins can be worth around $100,000 each.
● From 2000-2015, every time there was a dolphin captured, 12 of them were killed.
● The reason that all of these animals are killed is because the people think that the dolphins
are eating too many fish which means that they can’t sell it which means that they won’t be
able to make any money. So what they do is that they kill the dolphins so that they can have all
the fish to themselves. They see the dolphins as competition.

6. Truth about
Fishing
● South Japan has their own ports for different types of fish, such as one for blue finned tuna,
which is one of the most expensive fish in the world. They can sell up to 3 million dollars and
there are only 3% of them left in the ocean of 2019.
● Mitsubishi conglomerate has cornered a 40% share of the world market in bluefin tuna,
freezing the fish to sell later as the stock numbers plummet towards extinction.
● And most of these big companies are refusing to tell any information themselves and are
refusing all interviews of any kind.
● The shark finning industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and is often heavily involved with
criminals and is run by mafia-esque businesses.
● They don’t want people to be running around with cameras so that they don’t get exposed with
all of the shady things that they do.

7. Shark Fins
● Shark Fins are made as a status symbol and does not have any nutritional benefits, it does not
really taste of anything special and it can cost upwards of around $100 a bowl.
● Hong Kong is also known as “Shark Fin City'' and is not allowing people to film them
unpacking humongous loads of them into different factories and restaurants.
● If sharks keep getting definned, the ocean will turn into a swamp. They keep the fish fresh,
they keep the coral reefs alive and they can’t swim without their fins and will be left to die
painfully at the ocean bed. And then we will be the next thing to die. So we can’t live without
sharks.
● Sharks are becoming close to extinction. From 1970 to 2019 there have been form 80% to
99% of different shark species extinct and it was causing other species to die out with them.

8. Sharks
● When birds want to feed on sea food, they rely on sharks bringing up all of the fish to the surface
so that the birds can get them but, when sharks are not there then they will not have anything to
feed on. It has shown that over the last couple of decades, there has been a loss of about 70% of
the sea birds.
● Sharks kill around 11 people per year, and compared to that we kill from 11,00 to 30,00 per hour
(as of 2019), which most of them were caught as bycatch and then their fins are getting cut off
and then are discarded back into the ocean.
● Over 50 million sharks are caught as bycatch every year.
● 40% of all marine life that gets caught as bycatch gets thrown overboard and then they also
mostly die before they get to hit the water again.