Marine Life
Ocean life worldwide continues to be rapidly degraded by the simultaneous negative effects of: solid garbage pollution, chemical pollution into rivers and oceans, air pollution which returns to the oceans via rain, illegal and legalized overfishing of large food fish (i.e. tuna, swordfish, Chilean Sea Bass), overharvesting of sharks, whales and dolphins, and destruction of coral reefs and the marine life dependent on these reefs due to human activity (i.e. global warming, ill-advised tourism developments in delicate marine life areas, and deforestation — which leads to soil run-offs into oceans that kill reefs by blocking sunlight). The alarmingly-rapid destruction of coastal Mangrove forests essential to fish breeding and marine ecosystems is also a distressing trend which must be reversed.
Needlessly destructive and inhumane fishing practices, such as dragging massive nets across the ocean floor which ruthlessly destroy all marine life in their paths, and shark-finning — the practice of cutting the fins off hundreds of live sharks at a time then throwing the helpless sharks back into the ocean to slowly bleed to death — should end.
Mythix is committed to reversing these destructive marine practices, despite the difficulty of enforcing conservation laws in international waters. Mythix is also committed to preserving pristine coastal areas vital to marine life — by helping to enforce the protection of existing marine coastal protected areas, and by helping marine conservationists and scientists push for the creation of entirely new protected coastal areas.
A shark lies at the bottom of the sea after slowly bleeding to death...after having its fins sliced off. This barbaric practice, known as “shark finning,” has depleted many shark populations around the world by 80% — all to supply dried shark fins for “Shark Fin Soup” in Asia. Chinese basketball star Yao Ming has publicly declared that he has stopped eating shark fin soup due to “shark finning” and human overharvesting of sharks, and he has urged others to stop eating “Shark Fin Soup” as well.
The large drop in shark populations is upsetting the natural balance of the marine ecosystem. For example, along the eastern coast of the U.S., seal populations have eaten so many mussels that the mussel industry and its fishermen are suffering — due to the dramatically reduced number of sharks (which feed on seals), which would normally have kept seal populations in check.
