Cyanide Fishing

CYANIDE FISHING

BY: William Gariell L. Sarita

Estimates suggest 70 to 90% of aquarium fish exported from the Philippines are caught
with cyanide. It is more safer to use than dynamite fishing.
If Cyanide is use in water sodium cyanide breaks down into sodium and cyanide ions so that’s why it is more safe to use, in humans, the latter blocks the oxygen transporting it is called haemoglobin, but even it is safer to use there still danger in it if you ingest or inhale this it leads to a minute of unconsciousness asphyxiation follows. Lower leads to temporary or permanent disability or sensory failures. This is constant danger ion fishermen that are practicing this.

Usually in the Philippines most fishermen is poor, so there job is fishing. In desperation time they use all illegal things just to earn money so they use cyanide fishing. Because there poor they dive in with out artificial breathing aids. And when they reach on the coral reefs they spray poison between the individual layers, after which the yield is collected.