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[–] Jack@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The numbers listed here are quite low as a percentage of the 1-3 trillion fish slowly tortured to death every year by the fishing industry on purpose.

Scottish creel rope kills:

  • 6 humpback whales
  • 30 minke whales

UK-only vessels, annual bycatch killed estimates:

  • 120 tonnes of "protected" sharks, skates, and rays
  • 10 000 seabirds
  • 1 000+ endangered Atlantic salmon
  • 1 000 harbour porpoises and common dolphins
  • 500 seals

Globally

  • 400 000 seabird deaths from drowning due to gillnets

Orders of magnitude worse suffering is caused by factory farms where another 1-3 trillion fish are enslaved in continuous torturous conditions their entire lives.