After the wholesale rape of the land and its resources, the sea is the next logical step on our path toward the destruction of the world’s fragile ecosystems. As an omnivore, I (Benjamin) believe it is important to understand the process that brought an animal to my plate, and be at ease with the means and the end. Though with unsustainable fishing practices the norm; depleting breeding stocks, dredging the sea beds and bombing coastlines, is it little wonder that fish stocks are declining at an alarming and hitherto unseen rate?

How much long term profit would be lost to convert to nets that allow small fish to escape (surely a sustainable practice if we wish to continue to eat fish), to catch scallops by hand and more fish by the line? The answer is too much for big business even though consumers would happily pay more for fish caught in a sustainable fashion. Even where regulations and quotas are enforced, they are either ignored or impractical. If fish are caught and dragged for miles in a net, what is the use of throwing their corpses back into the sea as they can not be legally sold!

Finally, how can one not admire humanities dedication in the face of adversity to merely think that as one species declines to the point of extinction due to it’s consumption it can find another to fill its plaice (sic).

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Not content with desecrating the land
We have turned our actions toward the seas
Discarding tradition as soon she will discard us
And forging a chemical and blood steeped destiny.

Disruption of balance our end game goal
Our place in nature evolving via greed

In times of plenitude
How can a crisis loom
When after all Theres plenty more fish in the sea

Sit back! Gorge yourself.
Sit back! Kill yourself.