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Overcoming resistance to save our fish and oceans
Strict enforcement of this practice would deter fishermen from fishing unsustainably as their products would not be accepted by the public.
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Fishermen try out gillnets, a fishing equipment, to replace cantrang, a kind of Danish seine net, a fishing instrument identified as unsustainable and not environmentally friendly. (tribunnews.com/Rival Almanaf)
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bout 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is covered by water, predominantly by oceans, and life itself began out of the deep blue sea. From their violent and biblical history, oceans have been the main connector for civilizations, serving as an integral part of the lives of almost all sentient beings.
They are also responsible for the formation of our weather and climate patterns. Yet 4.5 billion years later, the human race appears to have largely turned its back on its original cradle of life, the oceans.
Overfishing, coral bleaching, species extinction, ocean pollution and garbage patches have made headlines throughout our modern history only to be met with little to no attention. One of the worst offenders of the great oceanic mess comes from the world’s largest archipelagic nation, Indonesia.
According to Ocean Conservancy, a nonprofit organization based in Washington DC, roughly 8 million metric tons of plastics enter our oceans every year, where Indonesia is ranked the second biggest contributor to plastic pollution in the ocean, beating the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, trailing only China.
