Net Neutrality for World Fishing Fleets
We all know what ‘net neutrality’ means in the cyber-world, the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications equally, and not discriminate or charge differently.
Yet aboard fishing boats there are different nets, with different purposes, that are destroying wildlife.
“Well,” you say. “There better be none of that, I’m a great protector of wildlife and you’ve only to check out my bird-feeder for evidence.” But, I include all life in the oceans as wild, as it is in the woodlands and plains (including your birdfeeder), in that it is precious and untamed.
The next time you pop open a can of tuna, grumbling at the damn costs going up, give a shout-out to the 300,000 whales and dolphins that are killed every year as bycatch by the fishing industry, making it the most prominent cause of death for these animals. Around 50 million sharks are killed as bycatch every year. That’s 5,769 whales and dolphins and nearly a million sharks killed every week.
Think…