Commercial Fishing

Commercial fishing has become a big business, and the methods used to catch and kill the animals are even more cruel than those used by factory farmers or slaughterhouse operators. In fact, the methods used to kill fish indicate that commercial fishers see their prey as no more sentient than rocks on a mountain—and the horrible cruelty that they inflict is completely unregulated. Commercial fishers kill billions of animals every year—far more than any other industry—and they’ve decimated our ocean ecosystems. In fact, 90 percent of large fish populations have been exterminated in the past 50 years.