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Sunlei

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1. I wish them good luck at the try to reduce 'bycatch' rates. the nets commercial fishers use,
Thu Sep 18, 2014, 06:08 AM
Sep 2014

strip everything from the sea. Was shocked recently at what happened to Baja, California close sea due to commercial fishing nets. The inner seas are totally covered by nets, entire species of dolphin/turtles are almost extinct. Everything the nets catch goes into cargo containers flash frozen, and shipped to china. The ships are so huge, they process onboard like floating factories.

Fish & wildlife calls them 'poachers' but not one commercial fishing corp. has been charged with any crime.

That is not 'fishing', those nets and floating factories, sweep every living fish out of those seas.

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