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Environment & Energy

Nihil

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4. Just the usual suspects ...

Reply to AtheistCrusader (Reply #3)

Thu Sep 18, 2014, 03:37 AM

Sep 2014

> However, the most deadly predator for ocean sunfish are humans.
> Although people in China and Japan eat ocean sunfish,
> most of the sunfish caught are bycatch

"Bycatch": the obscene killing of "unprofitable" victims in the nets.

Mind you, the attitude of "people in China and Japan" is pretty f* disgusting
when you consider just how many species they are willingly exterminating
to satisfy their sick appetite for exotics.

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Unusual species in Alaska waters indicate parts of Pacific warming dramatically [View all] Blue_In_AK Sep 2014 OP

thanks to our friends who eat fish, those fish may soon be extinct anyway so no big deal eh? nt msongs Sep 2014 #1

but "meat" is green! stuntcat Sep 2014 #2

Not many people eat sunfish. AtheistCrusader Sep 2014 #3

Just the usual suspects ... Nihil Sep 2014 #4