The tuna bone's connected to the turtle bone..turtle bone's connected to the dolphin bone...

The tuna bone's connected to the turtle bone...the turtle bone's connected to the dolphin bone...the dolphin bone's connected to the whale bone...

I know what you're thinking.

Did Mama gnome add a little something-something to her cup of morning elixir (so vital for existence) drink?

The answer is yes, as in about a cup of good old-fashioned eye opener potion.

How did that tuna get into your sushi? Most likely the tuna was caught with a giant purselike net or purse seine that's sickeningly huge.

How big?

How about a mile deep.

Let me say that again.... One mile...

With Mama gnome's short legs, it can take her a while to walk one mile..

That's how deep that net can be.

Who the heck throws these nets?

Yes, Mama gnome also had the old fashioned notion that tall humans with well-defined arms cast off these nets from romantic boats while the sun rises on the horizon.

Mama gnome would just like to wake you up with a dose of another truth medication.

Just as scary to have factory farming on land, we have "factory fishing" in the oceans.

Here's a video of factory fishing in action using a giant purse seine net, quite capable of catching 3,000 tons of tuna in a single fishing trip.


video by: GreenpeaceVideo

If you think the mile long net is terrible, here's another eye-opener.

Nets can be torn up and damaged, so they use metal to clear the path.

Metal as in deep sea trawlers.

Deep sea trawlers are equipped with heavy metal doors weighing as much as 6 tons.

These doors are attached to a behemoth nets which "can be as large as 55 meters across and 12 meters high." (180 feet across and almost 40 feet high)

Mama gnome would like to present this visual reference.

The blue whale is the "largest mammal in the world" and it can grow up to 33. 6 meters or 110 feet.

The blue whale can fit in that net and still have tons of room for other creatures to be caught with it.

Deep sea trawlers are dragged across seafloors causing maximum damage.

Ahhh...we're not really going to miss all that coral are we?

What do you mean that one reef was 1,800 years old? Older than the Pyramids?

Well...um...those critically endangered sea turtles were just in the way.

And so were those dolphins and sharks.

Please watch this video which shows a deep sea trawler being dragged on the seafloor.


video from: GreenpeaceVideo

Our oceans are being overfished by industrial fishing fleets because of insatiable consumer demands.

Mama gnome wants to give a wake up call to all her human friends.

"Wake up my human friends. Have you heard that human saying, there's lots of fish in the ocean?...Well, it's not true. Seriously. It's not true.

Lots of fishes are being caught, marketed, shipped and eaten into extinction.

How are the tuna, dolphin, sea turtle, whales, even coral connected to the same bone?

When these industrial fishing fleets set out to catch whatever they want to catch with their massive football size nets that dredge up the ocean floors, do you think they would stop to save the accidental bycatches of dolphins, sea turtles, sharks or corals? No...no...they don't.

What can you do to help stop overfishing?


Boycott restaurants that serve endangered marine creatures such as the bluefin tuna, whales, dolphins, sea turles, sharks, shark fin soup.

Eating these animals is like eating lions, cheetahs, tigers into extinction.

Look for the Marine Stewardship Council label. Here is the link for their website which lets you "find restaurants or shops around the world that sell MSC certified seafood."

Visit this site for a "guide to good fish guides."

Here's another thing to consider. Become vegetarian. Mama gnome knows this might be a huge challenge. Mama gnome knows for it was her greatest challenge ever.

But if you get past three months, it becomes easier.

Mama gnome just couldn't live with that stomach churning feeling every time she ate meat.

As a serious environmentalist, she just couldn't eat meat anymore knowing it's one of the biggest contributors to global warming, yes, the meat industry aka factory farming. Would you like your steak with a side of treefrog or tapir?

Just recently Mama gnome learned that the proposed ban on fishing of the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna was not approved.

Mama gnome wonders, why would people who love to eat this fish, not want to see it continue to live and prosper so they can continue to enjoy it for years and years.

When will humans learn the tuna bone's connected to the turtle bone...the turtle bone's connected to the dolphin bone...the dolphin bone's connected to the whale bone...the whale bone's connected to the human bone...the human bone's connected to the gnome bone.

We are all connected.

All the animals and plants on this planet know it, except for the humans.

Please watch this amazing video of humans catching tuna the old fashioned way.

No nets. No trawlers. Just lines and rods.


video from: BBC


Please dive into the ocean with Mama gnome and open your eyes to its beauty and life.

Swim against the current, swim for your life and Go Green.

(c) 2010 Jenaelha, Friendly Gnome's Blog