Both animals and the environment have plenty of advocates rooting for them in the public sphere.
In American media outlets, environmental groups and animal-rights activists get all kinds of coverage, which helps them get their message out.
Those are both important issues that society should be thinking about, but there are others that don't get the amount of coverage that they deserve.
Sea life is something that Americans don't often think about, in large part because it isn't brought up in the media and because the oceans are more mysterious to people than things that are on land are.
Unfortunately, in some parts of the world, and even in some parts of the U.
S.
, sea life is being harvested for consumption in ways that are unhealthy for the fish, the environment and the people who will consume it.
Thankfully, seafood is fished in healthy and humane ways in much of the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska seafood sustainability is especially well-respected by researchers.
Seafood from Alaska is fished in ways that comply with strict regulations that have been put in place to protect the environment and animal species.
In other parts of the world where regulations are less stringent, sea life populations are at risk for being overfished and then becoming extinct.
Local officials have relied upon years of in-depth research to come up with all of the great regulations that fishermen follow in order to ensure Alaska seafood sustainability.
Alaskan fishermen are limited to catching only specific amounts of seafood that are deemed reasonable, and every sea animal that is caught has to be of a certain size in order to be kept.
Any time that fishermen catch sea animals that are too small or that are of an unregulated species, those animals have to be put back in the ocean so they can procreate.
Returning those sea animals is a key element that protects Alaska seafood sustainability because it gives future sea animals the opportunity to grow up, reproduce and then ensure that their species continues to thrive.
Generally though, fishermen do not catch very many of these small sea animals or unwanted sea life because they use fishing methods that have been developed to target specific fish of specific sizes.
As Americans learn more about sea life and the ways it is harvested, they will hopefully begin to support fish industries that use good fishing methods, and hopefully many other parts of the world will adapt some of the important regulations that have helped guarantee Alaska seafood sustainability.
In American media outlets, environmental groups and animal-rights activists get all kinds of coverage, which helps them get their message out.
Those are both important issues that society should be thinking about, but there are others that don't get the amount of coverage that they deserve.
Sea life is something that Americans don't often think about, in large part because it isn't brought up in the media and because the oceans are more mysterious to people than things that are on land are.
Unfortunately, in some parts of the world, and even in some parts of the U.
S.
, sea life is being harvested for consumption in ways that are unhealthy for the fish, the environment and the people who will consume it.
Thankfully, seafood is fished in healthy and humane ways in much of the Pacific Northwest, and Alaska seafood sustainability is especially well-respected by researchers.
Seafood from Alaska is fished in ways that comply with strict regulations that have been put in place to protect the environment and animal species.
In other parts of the world where regulations are less stringent, sea life populations are at risk for being overfished and then becoming extinct.
Local officials have relied upon years of in-depth research to come up with all of the great regulations that fishermen follow in order to ensure Alaska seafood sustainability.
Alaskan fishermen are limited to catching only specific amounts of seafood that are deemed reasonable, and every sea animal that is caught has to be of a certain size in order to be kept.
Any time that fishermen catch sea animals that are too small or that are of an unregulated species, those animals have to be put back in the ocean so they can procreate.
Returning those sea animals is a key element that protects Alaska seafood sustainability because it gives future sea animals the opportunity to grow up, reproduce and then ensure that their species continues to thrive.
Generally though, fishermen do not catch very many of these small sea animals or unwanted sea life because they use fishing methods that have been developed to target specific fish of specific sizes.
As Americans learn more about sea life and the ways it is harvested, they will hopefully begin to support fish industries that use good fishing methods, and hopefully many other parts of the world will adapt some of the important regulations that have helped guarantee Alaska seafood sustainability.
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