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Shout out to the folks at Global Fishing Watch doing amazing work tracking unregulated fishing activity. Just need policy to catch up with reality now. https:/

• marricks 3y ago
  I feel like if global actually policy helped we wouldn't be in this "never ending increase in CO2 emission" hellscape we live in now. Like, not to knock on someone else's work, but I bet if we had globally enforced regulation while we may get nice bylines of "the blue fin tuna has made a rebound" the global fish populations would continue to plummet and the oceans acidify even further.
  • causal 3y ago
    Well we haven't ever had global policy enforcing CO2 reduction so I don't think we can conclude it doesn't work. But it's also not a fair comparison, reducing shark bycatch and reducing human CO2 output are completely different problems with different scale. I don't think giving up is acceptable either.
    • marricks 3y ago
      > I don't think giving up is acceptable either. 100% agree here.
• bearjaws 3y ago
  Just need to start sinking ships, sadly. The rate of enforcement is far too slow, and you have far too many nations as bad actors, there will never be effective enforcement.
• shitcoder 3y ago
  Definitely. Shout out to the effort they've put into their api's as well. I've integrated them into a product and raise awareness of sustainable fishing for several major retail outlets.