When will we stop?

So over the past few days I have been learning a lot more about how we as humans are destroying the oceans. I admit I was very naive. I just wanted to share with others what I have learned in the hopes that other people will discover what I have. I know that not everyone finds a passion in these sort of things, but I believe everyone could learn something from it..

So lets start by Shark finning.
100 million sharks are killed every year!

What is Shark Finning?
•Shark finning refers to the removal and retention of shark fins and the discard at sea of the carcass. The shark is most often still alive when it is tossed back into the water. Unable to swim, the shark slowly sinks toward the bottom where it is eaten alive by other fish.

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Faroe Islands Pilot whale massacre
Every year hundreds to thousands of pilot whales are driven into a bay where men slash, stab and slice them to death. The unborn are cut from there mothers.

To learn more visit Pilot whales

The Dall's porpoiseI always knew that roughly 20,000 cetacean were slaughter each year in Japan. Taiji only kills roughly 2,000. Recently I learned about the Dall's Porpoise.

The Dall’s porpoise is a stocky black and white cetacean found throughout the northern Pacific and adjacent seas. It is the target of the largest hunt of any whale, dolphin or porpoise species in the world, and has been for more than a quarter of a century.

Large scale hunting of Dall’s porpoises has taken place in Japanese waters for around 50 years. The average annual kill was between 5-10,000 animals during the 1960-70’s, however this shot up to over 40,000 animals after the International Whaling Commission (IWC) implemented its ban on commercial whaling. The ban saved many whale species from certain extinction, but unwittingly resulted in a new hunting threat to Dall’s porpoises when Japan’s whaling companies began to use Dall’s porpoise meat to replace the minke whales they were no longer allowed to hunt. Dall’s porpoises were also traded to the south of Japan where over-hunting of striped dolphins had left a demand for dolphin-type meat.

Today around 15,000 Dall’s porpoises are killed each year in a hand harpoon hunt that has been repeatedly described by the IWC’s Scientific Committee as “clearly unsustainable”.

To learn more visit Dalls Porpoise

Harp Seals
Every year, when the time is "right" (as soon as the ice conditions permit and the seal pups start shedding their fuzzy white coats), about 2,000 to 6,000 Canadian fishermen (most of European descent and most living in Newfoundland and the Magdalen Islands of Quebec), find their way to the floes and proceed to club, bludgeon, shoot, and skin hundreds of thousands of harp seals, most just a few weeks to a few months old.

This year the quota is roughly 390,000

To learn more visit Seal Hunt

Whaling
In 1986 a moratorium was made to protect the whales. But Japan and other Countries have found there ways around it claiming they are doing research.
•In fact, more than 25,000 whales have been killed since the Moratorium was supposed to come into force.

To learn more visit Whaling

Sea Turtles
Sea turtle consumption dates back millennia to a time when sea turtles abounded. Coastal communities rely on sea turtles as protein sources. Other societies serve sea turtle dishes as delicacies. Sea turtle meat is used in some religious ceremonies, and their bones, skin, and shells are used to provide non-food commodities, such as oil, leather, jewelry, and ornaments.

Even sea turtle eggs are prized and illegally collected. Vulnerable and often unprotected, they are scooped from nesting beaches and sold on the black market as medicines.

To Learn more Visit Sea Turtles


The list goes on. I hope that everyone takes the time to educate themselves and other people. The Oceans are nearly 71% of our Earth. If we don't start protecting them now, Then what does the future hold.