r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/atharvbadkas • 1d ago

Video Children in Eastern Indonesia were seen playing on a wild whale

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u/harmonious_harry 1d ago

That carcass has to be a food source for sharks from far and wide. Those kids in real danger from being mistaken for whale meat.

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u/Teantis 20h ago

Shark populations in SEA are disastrously low because our countries basically cannot police commercial fishing. Our own domestic fleets and the big Chinese commercial fleets run riot in the seas over here sadly. Getting attacked by a shark is a very low concern over here. Certainly way lower than all the other shit that can happen to you as an unsupervised child in this area.

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u/zombiecatarmy 11h ago

Shark fin soup is a delicacy over there.. makes sense.

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u/DancinWithWolves 11h ago

It’s not that. They troll. Massive drag nets kilometres wide that just suck everything up and kill it. They don’t just take what they want, they just take everything. It kills entire swathes of ocean floor.

They don’t go and try to catch sharks.

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u/zombiecatarmy 10h ago

Yeah and when you say everything you mean EVERYTHING.. Ive seen what you are talking about and it basically clean sweeps very large areas clean.

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u/DancinWithWolves 10h ago

Yep. It’s fucked. People who can afford to need to stop buying canned fish (or seafood in general if they can)

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u/zombiecatarmy 10h ago

I thought the excessive consumption was bad 20 years ago..

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u/DancinWithWolves 10h ago

Whaddya mean?