As the Arctic sea ice rapidly diminishing, the commercial fishing interests see it as an opportunity to expand their operations. The Care2 campaign team is currently advocating stopping commercial fishing interests from moving further into the Arctic Ocean. The group said that it posed threat to the animals who are already endangered by their diminishing habitat.
Commercial fishing is a great risk to the animals in this region. Huge trawlers deploy nets that reach to the ocean floor and bring up virtually everything in their path. As well as the fish that end up in the supermarkets and on plates in restaurants, there is an additional 25 million tons of sea animals each year that are pulled up by nets and thrown back into the sea, often dead or dying.
It is told that if commercial fishing were allowed in the Arctic Ocean, it would be exceptionally tragic, because the animals and the rest of the eco-system there are unique and so threatened already by the melting ice. Therefore, conservation groups and environmentalists appeal the common people to sign the petition to keep the Arctic protected from fishing. It’s bad enough that we allow this daily tragedy to occur in the rest of the planet’s waters, without allowing it to spread even into the most pristine of marine eco-systems.
