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Bycatch: A Threat To The Oceans





Apeksha Dhoka - T.Y BBA LLB (Hons.) MIT WPU Faculty of Law


ABSTRACT


When I was a child I always enjoyed going to aquariums and marine parks. I always wondered how these animals are trained, as they performed so well in the shows assigned to them. Until recently I realized that these marine creatures are subjected to unbearable torture and pain, and they are forced to live in such manmade conditions which will not help them to survive for a long time. These parks and aquariums are billion-dollar industries based on the enduring of intelligent social creatures, which are denied all that’s natural and necessary to them. After researching on this topic I had many questions brought up in my mind. One of which was how are these marine creatures caught from the ocean? So then I discovered that in order to entrap these creatures they are subjected to sharp fishing gears and enormous fishing nets. But the most important threat to the life of these animals is bycatch fishing. Very few of us know about how this lack of awareness and empathy in the developing industrialization can profoundly influence our lives, nation and us as a general public on immense levels.

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Indian Journal of Law and Legal Research

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ISSN: 2582-8878

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