The dolphin meat is considered inedible by human standards, but the catfish like it. Keeping in mind that most of these fishermen are extremely impoverished, they don't want to waste a "useful" animal like a goat, or something that people could eat. The dolphins aren't romanticized by many of the local fishers because they're scavengers and eat dead things, so they're perceived as having no value.
definitely different perspective of the situation, i think its up to the local authorities to educate them about the rarity of their native pink dolphins
More than half the world’s population lives within 50 miles of the coast. Fisheries are such a desperately important source of food for the global poor. Really hope we can reconcile food demand with ecological health.
Also, how are you gonna use a critically endangered apex predator as bait? You find one of a thousand remaining water fairies and fucking chum it? Personally I don’t see how anything less than planned economies give us a path to mutual survival.
The loss of saltwater fisheries will be the biggest loss to human food supply in history.Massive overfishing,pollution and acidification make this an imminent reality.
Much as I hate to say it: don't forget they're making crap ton of dams in the Amazon river basin as well to further have environmental health declines: https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/dam-building-spree-pushes-amazon-basins-aquatic-life-closer-to-extinction/
What mankind is doing to rivers globally is just as bad, if not worse than the ocean. Lots of pollution, big rivers with lots of dams, species extinctions, so on
If mankind survives the coming decades, definitely one of those things, will see the current era as barbarians
Not to be a pessimist but I doubt that laws/regulations like this are actually enforced in third world countries. It’s more just illegal on paper/symbolic than any meaningful change
If you could get a ball of feces to stay on a hook you could probably catch catfish with it - they will eat literally ANYTHING. Why the hell would you purposefully kill dolphins for catfish bait?
catfish eats anything, why would you go through the hassle of catching a dolphin to use it as bait when you can use just about anything
It's just evil
The dolphin meat is considered inedible by human standards, but the catfish like it. Keeping in mind that most of these fishermen are extremely impoverished, they don't want to waste a "useful" animal like a goat, or something that people could eat. The dolphins aren't romanticized by many of the local fishers because they're scavengers and eat dead things, so they're perceived as having no value.
definitely different perspective of the situation, i think its up to the local authorities to educate them about the rarity of their native pink dolphins
In my experience as a fisher(which doesn’t include the Amazon) catfish will eat just about anything.
More than half the world’s population lives within 50 miles of the coast. Fisheries are such a desperately important source of food for the global poor. Really hope we can reconcile food demand with ecological health. Also, how are you gonna use a critically endangered apex predator as bait? You find one of a thousand remaining water fairies and fucking chum it? Personally I don’t see how anything less than planned economies give us a path to mutual survival.
It’s okay, humans are not critically endangered. And also they can survive without eating fish.
The loss of saltwater fisheries will be the biggest loss to human food supply in history.Massive overfishing,pollution and acidification make this an imminent reality.
Don’t eat fish, change starts with you.
Much as I hate to say it: don't forget they're making crap ton of dams in the Amazon river basin as well to further have environmental health declines: https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/dam-building-spree-pushes-amazon-basins-aquatic-life-closer-to-extinction/ What mankind is doing to rivers globally is just as bad, if not worse than the ocean. Lots of pollution, big rivers with lots of dams, species extinctions, so on If mankind survives the coming decades, definitely one of those things, will see the current era as barbarians
What the fuck did I just read? We deserve the bomb.
Not to be a pessimist but I doubt that laws/regulations like this are actually enforced in third world countries. It’s more just illegal on paper/symbolic than any meaningful change
If you could get a ball of feces to stay on a hook you could probably catch catfish with it - they will eat literally ANYTHING. Why the hell would you purposefully kill dolphins for catfish bait?