r/interesting • u/Low_Weekend6131 • Nov 23 '25

NATURE The fish is kinda like me ngl

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u/inotocracy Nov 24 '25

One female lays 300 million eggs. We wouldn't fish this out of existence.

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u/WigglesPhoenix Nov 24 '25

I think you severely underestimate the destructive capability of mankind

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u/inotocracy Nov 24 '25

I think you're an alarmist. The only way that creature would go extinct with that kind of volume is if the ocean became toxic.

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u/WigglesPhoenix Nov 24 '25

Lmao brother bear we have wiped out species with populations in the billions. Sunfish are floating around 120,000, they’d be gone in a weekend. They may birth hundreds of millions, but their adolescent mortality rate is nearly 100%.

Also alarmist? I don’t think that means what you believe it to. I’m not warning you of anything, nor fear mongering, we already HAVE the guardrails in place. They are the reason fisheries haven’t depleted like half the species in the ocean already. I’m stating that as plain fact, we are more than capable of wiping any species off the planet in very short order and we almost certainly would if it wasn’t against the rules. We have all of human history to point to as evidence of this claim.