The ocean theme has always been a big hit for documentaries, from "Ocean" to "Blue Planet" to last year's "My Teacher Octopus".
These documentaries bring the mystery and magnificence of the ocean to the audience with the most beautiful visual effects.
Anyone who has seen it will be amazed by it.
At the same time, we more or less know how bad the marine environment is.
The sea ice in the Arctic and Antarctic is melting, coral bleaching, garbage is all over, plastic is polluting the ocean, and many marine life are on the verge of extinction.
And this documentary , "The Fisheries Conspiracy," uncovers a deeper, under-reported culprit.
In terms of marine pollution, we usually see overwhelming propaganda in the media, and the daily plastic damage to the marine ecological environment is huge.
You can easily see pictures of beached whales with tons of plastic piling up inside them.
However, everyday plastic is not the only danger. The documentary "Fishing Conspiracy" shows viewers the most important and most harmful human behavior that the media and even environmental groups have never reported - commercial fishing.
The main cause of the bad marine ecology is not climate change or marine pollution, but fishing activities.
An international study conservatively predicts that 1,000 sea turtles die from plastic pollution every year, but in the United States alone, 200,000 sea turtles are caught, injured and killed by fishing boats every year.
Of the 150 million metric tons of marine debris, daily plastic waste accounts for only 0.03%.
So who is the C-bit in plastic waste?
The waste of fishing gear brought by commercial fishing accounts for as high as 46%.
However, we will see pictures of a turtle with a plastic straw inserted in its nostril go viral, but it is very difficult to see a turtle in a fishing net!
It's the equivalent of getting people to stop people from cutting down the Amazon rainforest by boycotting toothpicks.
Trawling, on the other hand, is by far the most devastating form of fishing.
Heavy trawls scrape the seafloor, destroying the vibrant seabed.
It removes 3.9 billion acres of seabed each year, or 4,316 football fields per minute.
The consequences are equivalent to driving a bulldozer to level the Amazon primeval forest.
In the face of such destructive commercial fishing, most environmental groups don't even mention it.
This also means that even if no plastic is discharged into the sea from now on, the marine ecosystem will still suffer continuous damage.
Scientists predict that 90% of the world's coral reefs will be wiped out by 2050.
The prevailing view is that climate change is causing coral reefs to die, but almost no one mentions that marine fish are the key to maintaining coral reefs.
The excrement of marine fish is the food resource of coral reefs. Fishermen go to sea to fish not only destroy the ecology of marine fish, but also reduce the excretion of marine fish.
This means the coral loses the nutrients it uses to repair itself and grow.
We know that living and planting trees go a long way in maintaining carbon balance, but nothing is more urgent than the stabilization of marine ecosystems.
The ocean is the largest carbon sink on Earth, with coastal plants storing 30 times more carbon per acre than forests on land.
93% of the world's carbon is stored in the sea, and 1% of the marine ecology is destroyed, which is equivalent to the carbon emissions of 97 million cars released into the atmosphere.
To make matters worse, many environmental groups have colluded with the fishing industry.
Take the Marine Stewardship Council, for example, 90% of their £30 million annual revenue comes from approving eco-labels.
A company killed 45 dolphins in order to salvage 8 tuna, but still got the blue environmental label.
This means that this label has nothing to do with environmental protection, it is just a commercial promotion.
For profit, the activities of the fishing giants are far darker than we imagine.
Observers sent by the government to monitor the fishing operations of fishing boats, but this also has risks, one is that they will be bribed, and the other is that they will be killed.
It stands to reason that we should protect at least 30% of the sea area, in fact, only 5% of the sea area is protected.
And this statement is also misleading, because 90% of the 5% of the ocean is still fished.
In 1986, the International Court of Justice issued a global ban on whaling, but several countries, such as the most notorious Japan, ignored it.
In Taiji, Japan, 700 dolphins and small whales are driven to the bay by locals every year.
Whaling operations here are stamped and funded by the marine company entertainment industry.
On the one hand, the sale of young dolphins and whales can bring huge wealth to marine companies;
On the other hand, the carnage is that they think dolphins and whales, as top predators, will eat too many fish.
That is, dolphins are hunted to increase their catch.
Similar hunting practices occur all over the world, and in the Faroe Islands in the North Pacific, whaling is still carried out here.
As the saying goes, there is no killing without buying and selling.
David Attenborough said: "The health of our oceans is at stake, and this is changing faster than ever before in human history."
We can't sit in a restaurant and eat sea fish while talking about protecting the ecological balance of the ocean.
Rejecting shark fins and eating less sea fish is not only for the balance of marine ecology, but also for human survival itself.
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