This is why we exist.

The importance of our oceans cannot be overstated. They absorb somewhere between 25% to 40% of all carbon dioxide emissions and produce between 50% to 80% of all the oxygen on Earth. The health of the oceans doesn’t just impact marine animals, but all animals, including humans. However, our oceans are far from healthy. 

We forcibly remove somewhere between 0.8 to 2.3 trillion fish from the oceans every single year for food, with around 650,000 whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions and turtles also being killed each year by the fishing industry as well. The sheer volume of marine animals removed from our oceans every year has led to around 90% of global marine fish stocks becoming fully exploited, overexploited, or depleted.

On top of that, the fishing method of bottom trawling produces more carbon dioxide every year than the entire aviation industry and the fishing industry is responsible for creating dead zones and harmful algae blooms. 

Fish farming is also a major contributor to the climate crisis, with the lowest-impact fish farming systems producing more emissions than vegetable proteins.

However, the environmental impact of fishing is just one aspect.

Often overlooked is the suffering that fish are forced to endure as a result of the fishing industry. Whilst we often disregard the intelligence and complexity of fish, a scientific panel for the European Union concluded that the evidence shows that fish do feel pain. 

But even though this is the case, in the fishing industry, fish are caught on hooks or trapped in nets, hauled out of the water, which can cause their internal organs to rupture due the the rapid pressure changes, and then dumped on fishing boats, where they will suffocate and be crushed to death, or be gutted whilst they are still alive. 

Needless to say, an industry that causes this level of suffering to such a huge number of animals who have been scientifically proven to feel pain, needs to be addressed. 

This is why we created The No Catch Co, to give people the taste and experience of eating seafood, but without the immense environmental damage and horrendous suffering and death that comes with eating fish.

We want to see a future where the oceans, and all the life contained within them, are treated with the respect that they deserve.