Many people around the world enjoy eating fish, but we do not pay close attention to the practices that are being used to catch those fish. The underwater sea is a pool of mysteries and majesties. To see the bottom sea floor tinted with blood through the carelessness of people is a sore sight to bear. We are in a technologically advanced and humanely progressed society. Through this point, we still need to do a lot more towards preserving our environment and other living beings that deserve to live their life and it is our responsibility to ensure that as human beings.
Humanity has figured out a breakthrough in fishing: catching fish by using derelict nets. Looking deeper into this, it is clearly noted that we have ignored to collect every net that was deployed to catch our prey and the leftover nets underwater are death traps of thousands of precious marine lives. Every year, thousands of tons of nets are abandoned under waters throughout the world, and thousands of species including marine birds, dolphins, rockfish, marine invertebrates and mammals are being trapped and killed, due to this “breakthrough. These nets continue to trap and turn those lives to skeletons for decades if not removed. These nylon net traps have succeeded in consuming lives every day as they rest at the bottom of the sea. What else could display our irresponsible actions under water?
For the fight to keep litter out of seas, why is directly littering our water not prohibited? Let’s save thousands of marine lives under Puget Sound waters and be responsible for the creations we’ve made as human beings. The human race today is far knowledgeable than it was many centuries ago, but we haven’t put the thought into the process of fishing while we consciously catch what we want to eat and ignore victims of our unnoticeable and irresponsible actions.
We urge you to join SavetheSound2014 team and protect the marine life that are so longingly roaming our precious waters.
Save The Sound! 