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Breeding Killer Fish

Pollution in our oceans is breeding killer fish!

Fee O'Shea
3 min readJan 1, 2023

We all know how much we pollution there is in the ocean, but because of our own actions our beautiful ocean is now breeding killer fish that are killing us.

In New Zealand, at the beginning of 2013, there was a massive wash-up of dead Snapper (popular eating fish) onto one of the beaches, which, in not only my opinion but others, has come from trawling nets. Legal or illegal, I do not condone trawling. You can imagine how this horrified New Zealanders as well as global sea lovers.

Are people just plain thick? Can’t they foresee that there won’t be any fish if this continues? It’s well known that trawlers have increased their time at sea because it takes longer to catch the required amount. Also, illegal trawling is increasing as fish are being depleted from legal parts.

Not long after I heard about this, I read the book Killer Fish: How Eating Aquatic Life Endangers Your Health which certainly opened my eyes to the health risks people take when they consume fish. More so with farmed fish.

Researchers analyzed samples of farmed Atlantic salmon from different areas — Here’s one of the findings that astounded me taken from the book:

“Total PCB concentrations in the farmed salmon were significantly…

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Fee O'Shea
Fee O'Shea

Written by Fee O'Shea

Gold card carrying vegan NZ author. Passionate about all critters (including humans). Can be seen advocating for the animals or speaking at events.

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