Blast fishing, fish bombing, dynamite fishing or grenade fishing is a destructive fishing practice using explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection.

Blast fishing usually occurs over coral reefs, shattering the coral and destroying these biodiversity hotspots for decades to come – it is thought that it may take more than a century before reefs return to normal. It’s also dangerous; devices sometimes explode prematurely, causing serious injuries and deaths.

2019年2月21日 · Also known as blast or dynamite fishing, fish bombing is one of the most destructive forms of fishing because it indiscriminately kills any animal in the blast area—from fish eggs and plankton to whales and dolphins—and devastates corals.

Blast fishing, when dynamite or other explosives are used to stun or kill fish, is a practice used in many villages and isolated regions of the world. Hundreds of fish can be seen strewn across the reef, left as bycatch, such as these tropical fish in Thailand.

2021年9月8日 · Blast fishing, also called fish bombing or dynamite fishing, uses explosives to cause an explosion at sea to kill or stun fish. Fishermen lacking money to invest in proper fishing equipment often resort to blast fishing as an easier and cheaper alternative.

2021年10月1日 · Our systematic review of blast fishing identified the historical and current dispersion of blast fishing, and found that it remains a threat to coral reef ecosystems and the sustainability of local fishing livelihoods.

2016年6月3日 · See how dynamite fishing damages the marine environment off the coast of Tanzania. A horrific practice uses explosives to catch fish. Some dynamite and a plastic bottle. That’s all it takes for a...

Fish bombing is a very wasteful, destructive, and unsustainable fishing method. Typically, more than half of the fish killed from one bomb are not collected by the fishermen. Blasts also indiscriminately kill young fish that haven’t reached sexual maturity, as well as many other species of marine animals that are not usually caught, such as ...

However, fish bombing (also known as blast or dynamite fishing) is a globally significant type of destructive fishing which can now be detected and accurately geolocated in real-time at...

2015年2月4日 · The incident, which occurred a year ago, was Ms. Vyvyan-Robinson’s first encounter with blast fishing, a highly destructive technique used in impoverished pockets of the world.