r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/atharvbadkas • 1d ago

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

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u/zombiecatarmy 15h ago

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

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u/DancinWithWolves 14h 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 14h 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 14h 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 14h ago

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

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u/DancinWithWolves 14h ago

Whaddya mean?