The numbers listed here are quite low as a percentage of the 1-3 trillion fish slowly tortured to death every year by the fishing industry on purpose.
Scottish creel rope kills:
6 humpback whales
30 minke whales
UK-only vessels, annual bycatch killed estimates:
120 tonnes of “protected” sharks, skates, and rays
10 000 seabirds
1 000+ endangered Atlantic salmon
1 000 harbour porpoises and common dolphins
500 seals
Globally
400 000 seabird deaths from drowning due to gillnets
Orders of magnitude worse suffering is caused by factory farms where another 1-3 trillion fish are enslaved in continuous torturous conditions their entire lives.
The numbers listed here are quite low as a percentage of the 1-3 trillion fish slowly tortured to death every year by the fishing industry on purpose.
Scottish creel rope kills:
UK-only vessels, annual bycatch killed estimates:
Globally
Orders of magnitude worse suffering is caused by factory farms where another 1-3 trillion fish are enslaved in continuous torturous conditions their entire lives.