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Fish eel pain and stress, as conrmed by the government’s own

armed animal advisory body (FAWC). It’s impossible to know

how many are killed at sea because such enormous numbers are

caught. Millions more are slaughtered on sh arms.

Fish arming now accounts or 50 per cent o global sh consumption. As many as 50,000

sh are crammed into underwater cages where they are orced to swim in endless circles.The water is lthy rom their waste. Injuries occur due to collisions and aggression, and

mortality rates are high. Sea lice ourish in these conditions, eating the sh alive. Their short,

miserable existence ends when the conscious sh are killed by a variety o brutal methods.

These include being clubbed, gassed and asphyxiated. Others have their gills cut and bleed

to death. Some are gutted alive.

In an attempt to limit disease in the underwater cages, armed sh are given vaccines,

antibiotics and chemicals with known human health risks. Thirty per cent o the at in shcan be saturated, contributing to obesity, heart disease and some cancers. The ats act like a

sponge, soaking up toxins – including mercury and cancer-causing dioxins – rom polluted

oceans. That stench at the sh counter is the smell o the ats turning rancid.

“- Professor Tom Sanders

Head of the Research Division of Nutritional Sciences, King’s College London

You do not need to eat sh to be healthy...

Vegetarians can meet their requirements or omega-3 atty acids

by consuming oods that contain alpha-linolenic acid. Rich

sources include soybeans (including soya milk & tou), walnuts,

rapeseed oil, faxseed & dark green vegetables such as spinach.

Fish are dragged to their deaths in nets the size o

ootball pitches by huge industrial trawlers. As they are

hauled up rom the deep, they undergo excruciating

decompression, which can rupture their swimbladders,

pop out their eyes and push their guts out through

their mouths. On huge industrial ships, killing, gutting

and processing are all automated.

Overshing is causing populations such as cod

to collapse. Fish are being caught beore

they have time to breed, giving numbers

no time to recover. The seas are being

stripped bare and the oceans are dying.

Farming sh increases the problem

because three to ve tons o ocean-

caught sh are needed to produce

eed or one ton o armed sh.

Fish arming

Ocean shing

Unhealthy

Oceans on the brink o collapse

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Wildlie at risk

Hundreds o thousands o marine animals

die every year as a result o being accidentally

caught in shing nets. They include whales,

dolphins, porpoises, sharks and endangeredturtles. Long-line tuna shing

kills approximately 100,000

albatrosses every year.

The birds dive or the bait

planted on the end o the lines,

swallow it, hook and all, and are pulled underwater

and drowned. Animals also sufer horric injuries when

they become entangled in discarded nets.

batross k illed by long-line fshing

Deep-water trawling nets plough through ragile

coral rees, devastating ocean oors. Fish arms

also damage their surrounding environment. Thepollution rom sh arming in Scotland is comparable

to sewage produced by 9.4 million people. In some

places, the water surrounding the arm becomes so

heavily contaminated that no lie can survive.

Environmental damageSeal seriously wounded by net

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