[karlas]

with commercial fishing they use gill nets and live lines and it destroys everything it catches. thats the sad part including other animals like sea turtles, seals and dolphins. fish that are not wanted for market get tossed back in the ocean and already dead

just like in the eastern countries *especially japan they catch numerous sharks cut there fins off and throw the still alive sharks back in the water. Because shark fin soup is a major delacacy what a totally useless waste of marine life

when we were in mexico the area we were in made it illigal to keep bill fins because of the commercial fishing was killing there numbers. so for them its catch and release only. one of the problems is fish like marlin take so long to grow and reproduce theres no way they can even keep up. a 1000 plus pound marlin is almost a rareity anymore and if you do ever see one chances are your looking at a fish thats much older than you are. if not caught and live to full term they can live well over 100 years. *

i read an article about a major cruise ship line where the head chef of all the ships has put a ban on the use of all bill fish served on any ship owned. if i remember right it might be princess cruises. *where at one time that was one of the main and most popular dishes served on the ships which is no more so i say good job to the head chef

also about the tuna there was a show on discovery where they had a fishing village. this village depended on the running of the tuna for there food for the year. there used to be so many tuna they got there food for the whole village and year in one fishing trip. now the numbers of tuna have dwindled so bad that they have to do 3 or 4 times what took them once in the past. they only took what they needed for the village and none of it went to waste. if mass commercial fishing continues they may possibly wipe out the village since its there only way of life they know and there main food source