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A few days ago I posted a video about how I mortally wounded a 150-pound dogtooth tuna with my speargun, but soon after I shot it, my line broke leaving the spear stuck inside the back of that giant fish while it swam off and inevitably died somewhere. According to Wikipedia that fish was probably a few decades old and I felt really horrible after it happened. Anyways, if you're already a spearfisherman or a hunter then this video might not be for you. But I know that a lot of people who watch my videos aren't hunters or fishermen, and I know from experience that when I post a spearfishing video, the bigger the fish is, the more likely it is that people in the comments will be offended and outraged. For instance, if I spear this little rainbow runner and turn it into sashimi, nobody bats an eye. But if I spear this tuna and bring it back to shore to share with the local villagers, then everyone loses their minds!
According to animalclock.org, 36 million cows are killed every single year for consumption in the US alone. That's about 100000 cows every single day and according to the USDA, out of those 100.000 cows that are killed every single day, 31.000 of them are killed for absolutely no reason other than that people's eyes are bigger than their stomachs. And that's to say nothing of the fact that these cows are basically raised in brutal slavery and artificially impregnated only to have their babies stolen from them and ground up into veal until eventually they're killed way before they naturally would have died. And cows are not only smarter than dogs, but they're said to have the same intelligence as a three-year-old child, whereas tuna brains are extremely tiny so I guess what I'm trying to say here is, unless you're 100% vegan, I don't want to hear your complaints!
Anyways, I just kind of felt like ranting, but basically although I genuinely do love the adventure and challenge of chasing big fish and I genuinely do love to take photos with them after I catch them, and obviously make videos about it, if spearfishing wasn't sustainable I wouldn't do it. And wounding a big fish and having it escape, is not an example of why spearfishing is not sustainable. It's an example of why spearfishing is not perfectly sustainable. Having said that, it's about as sustainable as you can get, and aside from all that it is impossible to buy food that's this fresh and this delicious from any restaurant or any store on earth.