Delicious seafood can’t make it to our tables because of this problem #seafoodlover #seafood #shorts

A study from Germany, I think it's a couple years old now, concluded that 25 million traps are lost at sea every year. And if you know anything about ghost gear, what it means is that lost fishing gear is, of course, fishing gear is designed to catch and kill fish. That's what you do when you're fishing, and you catch and kill fish. When you lose it, it doesn't stop doing that, so it continues to catch and kill. And a lot of this equipment, like nets, for example, they do a lot of damage at first, but then they bundle up into these small bundles and they stop doing that much harm, while traps actually Actually, they maintain their structural integrity for decades, and dead animals is perfect bait for new animals to come in, and this goes on in a perpetual cycle of death, actually. And huge amounts of valuable and delicious seafood is wasted to just no one's benefit.