Seaspiracy- An opinion from a guy living in an island.

Hello evreyone, first of all thank you for clicking in this story and for being interested in my opinion, I’ve been wanting to write a story for a long time now and after I saw the new documentary for Netflix called “ Seaspiracy” I saw the oportunity.

The documentary is all about the oceans, the causes of polution and the industrialization of fishing, the truth is that we all know how bad polution is hurting our planet and that we need to find some kind of solution for this and it needs to bee soon. But the hard truth in that documentary is that 46% of the sea polution is a consequence of fishing, if this is true, how can we fix it? Stop fishing? Yes, you got it right! The author affirmation is exactly that!

After I finished watching the documentary I went to talk with one of my long time friends, and we went a lilttle bit back and forth about this topic and we came to a conclusion. That conclusion is the following, we (as a world) have two options, we can end the industrialization fishing and kill a sector that generates billions of dollars for numerous countries and cultures or we can simply keep doing what we are doing and extint several species and destroy our oceans. Do we have any more options? I sincerely don’t know, I’ve lived in a Island all my life, that Island is called São Jorge in Azores, Portugal, we have a fabric that produces tuna for several countries and gives the Island lots of cash flow giving all diferent options for numerous sectors. In that fabric works about 150 people, imagine we dismiss 150 people because we want to end up with the fishing, we would be sending 150 famalies to a deep black hole, we would be ending up with 150 jobs, we would be ending up with 150 different sustenance for famalies. And I’m just talking about a small Island in the middle of the atlantic ocean, imagine if we are talking about all the industry of fishing. What consequences would it have to the world? Could we survive without this industry? Would we have a blackmarket for fresh fish? Can the governments control this sector? How would this impact our lives and the whole world?

Once again, thank you for reading my opinion and I would love to discuss this topic with you guys! I really recomend you watch the documentary and formulate an opinion about this big problem in our world.