There’s a mommy and daddy seahorse hanging on a blade of grass, sleeping… all of a sudden a bright light, then something that sounds like thunder… no it’s the roller of a shrimp net thundering towards the helpless seahorses. The mommy and daddy seahorse swim as fast as they can, but the daddy carrying about 500 - 1000 babies can’t swim as fast as mommy … she gets away but the daddy is caught up in the net along with thousands of other creatures. (puffers, shrimp, peppermint shrimp, flounder, file fish, small octopus, and other daddy seahorses. Etc.) They dump them all onto a big board running across the boat. The men go through the creatures and sort them according to PRICE. The seahorses go into a bucket to be traded for beer and/or drug money. Everything else gets feed to the sea gulls hovering behind the boat (so quite that until the light comes on, you don’t even know they are there, VERY EARRIE!) If he’s lucky the daddy seahorse ends up in a store somewhere in America where he goes into labor and watches every one of his babies die and then he dies.

       We have personally witnessed this procedure and find it appalling at what takes place on 1 boat in the shrimping industry. (How many more are out there?)

       Sea Save Inc. would like to start a program where the daddies that are brought in (Most of which are pregnant) are given a chance to have their babies that would be re-released back where they were found.

 Demand “Seahorse safe shrimp” (like dolphin safe tuna)

      If you would like to help us with this project PLEEEASE call or stop in (Or e-mail) and let us know.