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Yes we do 😂

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@@lisayasminwarren1310 Keep your dirty cryptocurrency away from my squeaky clean Sponge boi 🧽

Cool! I believe you

What did you do while working for him?

@@kiloton1920 mostly just beat the sponges. you have to get the skin off, you see. day in, day out. mind the lines and beat the sponges. couple times he had me at the wheel, but only when I was the only one suited. dishes, cleaned the decks. deckhand stuff, greenhorn stuff. sponges, rinse, beat, dry, beat, dry some more, beat. rinse and rebeat. was really menial stuff, but I always responded with a "Yessir" and got it done. made good money, but stank to high heavens. the smell is the killer. making better money than my peers, but if I can't spend it on a date, what's the point? had to shave off all my hair and sunburn most of my skin to peel off, to get the smell out. no amount of scrubbing can wash away the stench. only dove once, but decided that part of the job isn't for me. I'm slightly claustrophobic, and the pressure of the water on me isn't fun. I slept on deck in a hammock, really sucked when we'd go through a squall. the neat thing about 𝘈𝘯𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘴𝘪 is the ability to rig sail, she's still got her traditional mast and rigging. most trips we'd use that for curing sponges, but sometimes we'd get the canvas from below and set it up. I have a good bit of experience with traditional sailing, those were the times he'd have me at the helm.

- Good shxt. That is awesome 👌🏽 👏🏽 ❤ Why kill these animals though? Poor Sponge Bob 🧽 😢

@@blessedbeauty2293 why kill a cow for beef? why kill a grouper for it's meat? it's tasty, it's parts have use beyond the obvious. although we don't eat them, sponges are still used in almost every industry for odd reasons, from dampening to damping. people tend to prefer the natural sponge over a synthetic sponge because it's renewable, biodegradable, and if taken care of proper, it will last decades of use. my grandpa used the same natural sponge to clean his old cars for over 30 years, and I just used that sponge to wash my motorcycle about a week ago. the sponge is a filter feeder. it will grow back from the tiniest part left on the bottom, and the government says we have to leave a good chunk (2 inches off the bottom) of the sponge, so we use a knife to cut them off the bottom. technically we aren't killing the sponge at all, think of it like shearing a sheep. Ironic, as one of the most common sponges we harvest are called "wool" sponges.

@hitman.radio30 yeah? So what happened in greece city where they depleted whole sponge

@@fuckcorporati0ns Media hyperbole They depleted all the harvested sponges , not the actual sponge beds

@hitman.radio30 like it or not, they're quoting what the sponge harvester in the video said aren't they! Clearly they are not growing back as fast as they are being harvested are they!

Ha the big blue Greek restaurant? I went there too

omg same lol!

Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire. Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power. Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes. Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved. Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed. Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions. Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope. Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome. Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948

so sick of these videos spewing "Climate change"...what people dont know is our own govt & 36 other governments make their own weather. In the US it's called HAARP program (look up) and our US govt even cloud seeds hurricanes to make them BIGGER. YEP. look up "Project Storm fury" = about hurricane being cloud seeded. look up the video "Dr Fuellmich grand jury day 1" video where Dr Fuellmich and his team expose the lies, manipulation and crimes our govt & world govts have done in the last 2 1/2 years with the push of these evil EXPERIMENTAL 💉 they are pushing and harming millions world wide. look up yt ch The healthy American peggy hall vids "Civil rights Act of 1968 title 7 & 11" and "EEOC file complaint) = Peggy shows you that you have LEGAL rights to say NO to mask, 💉 and testing and still KEEP YOUR JOB. YEP our corrupt govt forgot to share this info with citizens. But, Peggy has free vids on this. See also US Freedom Flyers = more info. pls pass on to everyone!! The truth shall prevail.

What you are not hearing on these comments is how much courage it takes to do this job. I knew one such person who did this for a living. Ask some of these guys to share their shark stories with you.

Is it any surprise that a parent would want their children to do better than them?

@@juancarlosnegron2358 most parents at least

it's sad that people only care about making more money, and tradition and way of life is thrown out the window.........There is no class or respect for people who have no tradition or skills from the world of creators.

@@autentico3284 Wdym, have you seen the people in the comments of this video and other videos on this channel? There is a huge community of people who respect these crafts. I wasn’t saying that I don’t respect the craft, I respect the fact that the people aren’t forcing their children to do the craft like in other videos.

@@autentico3284 What good is the tradition and way of life if it doesn't pay the bills or put food on the table?

Loofahs are scratchier!

@@toomanymarys7355 Yes, but just leave it soaking in water for a few days and it becomes more flexible.

Yup this article forgot about that squash.

In Egypt too we also use loofah

@@flaviosilva6102 what color panties are you wearing today

How can you afford clearwater/st pete?

Repent and follow Jesus my friend! Repenting doesn't mean confessing your sins to others, but to stop doing them altogether. Belief in Messiah alone is not enough to get you into heaven - Matthew 7:21-23, John 3:3, John 3:36 (ESV is the best translation for John 3:36). Contemplate how the Roman empire fulfilled the role of the beast from the sea in Revelation 13. Revelation 17 confirms that it is in fact Rome. From this we can conclude that A) Jesus is the Son of God and can predict the future or make it happen, B) The world leaders/nations/governments etc have been conspiring together for the last 3000+ years to accomplish the religion of the Israelites C) History as we know it is fake. You don't really need to speculate though because you can start a relationship with God and have proof. Call on the name of Jesus and pray for Him to intervene in your life. - Revelation 3:20 Revelation 6 1st Seal: White horse = Roman Empire conquering nations under Trajan 98-117 AD & Gospel spreading rapidly. 2nd Seal: Red horse, bloody civil wars with 32 different Emperors, most killed by the sword. 185-284 AD 3rd Seal: Black horse, economic despair from high taxes to pay for wars, farmers stopped growing. 200-250 AD 4th Seal: Pale horse, 1/4th of Romans died from famine, pestilence; at one point 5,000 dying per day. 250-300 AD 5th Seal: Diocletian persecuted Smyrna church era saints for ten years, blood crying out for vengeance. 303-312 AD 6th Seal: Political upheaval in the declining Roman Empire while the leaders battled each other. 313-395 AD Revelation 7 Sealing of 144,000, the saints, before trumpet war judgments, which led to the fall of the Roman Empire. Revelation 8 1st Trumpet: Alaric and the Goths attacked from the north, the path of hail, and set it on fire. 400-410 AD 2nd Trumpet: Genseric and the Vandals attacked the seas and coastlands, the blood of sailors in water. 425-470 AD 3rd Trumpet: Attila and the Huns scourged the Danube, Rhine & Po rivers area, dead bodies made water bitter. 451 AD 4th Trumpet: Odoacer and the Heruli caused the last Western Emperor (sun), Senate (moon) to lose power. 476 AD With the Western Roman Emperor (restrainer of 2 Thes. 2) removed; the son of perdition Popes took power. Revelation 9 Two woe judgments against the central 1/3rd and eastern 1/3rd of the Roman Empire. 612-1453 AD 5th Trumpet: Locust & scorpions point to Arabia, the rise of the Muslim army. Islam hides Gospel from Arabs. 612-762 AD 6th Trumpet: Turks released to attack Constantinople with large cannons (fire, smoke, brimstone). 1062-1453 AD Revelation 10 The little book is the printed Bible, which was needed after the Dark Ages when Scriptures were banned by Popes. Revelation 11 7th Trumpet: Martin Luther measured Roman Church; found that it’s an apostate church, not part of true temple. The two witnesses are the Scriptures and saints who proclaim the pure Gospel and testify against the antichrist Popes. Papal Church pronounced Christendom dead in 1514 AD. Silence for 3.5 years. Then Luther posted his 95 Thesis, which sparked the Protestant Reformation and brought the witnesses back to life. Millions of Catholics were saved. Revelation 12 Satan used the Roman Empire to try to wipe out the early Church, Satan was cast down as the Empire collapsed. Revelation 13 The antichrist beast Popes reigned in power 1,260 years, 538-1798, is the little horn of Daniel 7, son of perdition. The false prophet Jesuit Superior General rose to power from land (earth) of Vatican and has created many deceptions. Revelation 14 Points to great harvest during the Protestant Reformation & wrath on Catholic countries who obey antichrist Pope. Revelation 15 Overcoming saints victorious over the beast. Prelude to 7 vials and judgment on those who support Papal Rome. Revelation 16 1st Vial: The foul sore of atheism was poured out on Catholic France, leaving them with no hope, led to revolution. 2nd Vial: The French Revolution started in 1793, killed 250,000, as France had obeyed the Pope and killed saints. 3rd Vial: The French Revolution spread to rural areas of France, where Protestants had been killed in river areas. 4th Vial: The bloody Napoleonic wars shed the blood of countries who had revered and obeyed the antichrist Pope. 5th Vial: Judgment on the seat of the beast. Papal States invaded in 1798, Pope imprisoned, removed from power. 6th Vial: The Turks vast domain dried up, they were only left with Turkey. They lost control of Palestine in 1917 AD, Israel became a nation again in 1948

@@Guerrilla727 you don’t 🤘

@@Guerrilla727 I currently rent a 2bd/2ba Townhome in Dunedin (Although I'm a 5 minute walk to the Clearwater boundaries). It's $1600 a month (I live alone but I can afford it relatively easily) but I locked in before all the crazy spikes. When my lease runs out most likely it'll spike to 2k.

@@Blaze6432 Yeah its getting crazy down there. I got a condo in 2017 so my mortgage was only 1k. Sold and moved to Tennessee where i got a house twice the size with land for $800.

Even so, why do anything BUT visit the sponge docks??

sounds nice! nice to meet you! from az myself

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ the LORD? Or Lord? The LORD is Satan The Christos surely is the savior of men, but exists within men. Jesus never said to worship him

@@froggygirl329 I think my Greek wife might have something to say to you about being a troll, I think I will show her. She will get a big laugh 🤣

Do you still live on Indian Rocks Beach? I only ask because my uncle lived there up until fairly recently.

@@MrEazyE357 No I left in 2018, but it's one the most laid back places on earth. I miss those sunsets, unfortunately I couldn't get clean in Florida so I had to make a change. But it worked, I'll have 5 years on September 19. Sometimes you have to leave the things you love in order to live your life. I guess that's a little more info than you needed LOL but I'm proud of what I did, and a proud veteran.

@@Mach11976 Thanks for sharing 24 years sober and yes they are vary great folks the greeks in tarpon Navy VETRAN

@@froggygirl329 you clearly haven't spent a lot of time around Greek people or you would understand what he means. They have a very tight close knit community, stop assuming everything is racist or elitist and just understand the nuance of a conversation.

Thanks!!

I was happy to hear that too because so many of the old generation are still on that "work 24hr to the bone to be a real man" type of mentality and that's just not the way life is any more. You can do and make more with less now.

Yeah the spill on Bradenton did it.

They were not exactly chemicals and they were not stored in tanks. It was large reservoirs of standing water saturated with nitrogen based fertilizer which accumulated from the farmlands and decorative landscaping. The earthen barriers used to contain this water collapsed and a lot of thar water drained into the bay causing the red tide algae to explode in population due to feeding on the excess nitrates.

@@physetermacrocephalus2209 I really appreciate the additional information you provided. However, I would argue that the distinction between chemicals and water contaminated with nitrogen fertilizer is negligible. After all, nitogen rich fertilizer is also called chemical fertilizer for a very good reason. And trying to separate the two is dangerous, considering how frequently golf courses and comericial farms try to use those kinds of terms to get around chemical fertilizer bans in the rainy months. Bans which exists to protect our fish, sponges, coral, and people. Bans which, had they been stricter and more broad, may have prevented the red tide disaster which is still effecting the population to this day and will continue to do so for years to come. You are however right about the tanks. That was a good point to make.

@@Thehouseoffail How do you think the "dead zone" at the mouth of the Mississippi in Louisiana happens? All that fertilizer and crud and chemicals and machine parts and crap from cows and pig farms from 30 states all flow into the river and go to the Gulf of Mexico....killing everything. But there are no restrictions for the northern states to clean up their act all the way to Minnesota, they just continue to pollute the river. Then it hits the Gulf stream and heads to Texas....and then Texas gets EPA fines from the freaking feds every year.

@@KB-ke3fi Also a fantastic point. Though, I'm not gointg to give Texas a pass because they have a terrible track record. But it is important to remember that interstate cooperation is crucial to keeping our coasts from becoming a wasteland. And that more northern, landlocked states are major polluters. That all waterways eventually lead to the ocean and need to be protected.

they want to ride their wife wherever they go

There is a bakery in Tarpon Springs called Hellas and they make my favorite baklava

@@npeace312 that’s nice! Ohhh… now I want some 🤤

Well, my father took me there via train from St a Pete for my 7th birthday. We went out on a boat and watched a hard hat diver go down and bring up a bag of sponges. That was 1966. So, I guess they manage their harvests just fine.

They slice the sponges off where they grow, leaving a flat "tree trunk" like chunk of sponge that it grows back from. Fully sustainable, so long as we keep our oceans clean

he hides under a pineapple under the sea nobody would think to look under that

you gotta meet the guy. he's something else. the term "old salt" doesn't even fit him. Taso is a man of few words, and very wary of people. after all, a master doesn't reveal his secrets so easily. I know the guy, I can't believe he spoke so much on camera.

@@aidanacebo9529 definitely will 👍🏻

@@hnfiiinc5993 if you're local, he's normally working dockside if he's there. his family owns the sponge emporium next to the dock.

But really they shouldn't wonder why the water is so dirty in the Gulf since they are actively removing the filtration systems.

Wash cloths are dead skin and dirt traps 🤮

I prefer a wash cloth as well. It gets all the nook an crannies. I also, saw the documentary on pearls...it was super interesting!!!

Centuries look at the amount harvested now compared to the past, man you are dull ass hell

I do think we've learned more about sustainable harvesting recently than a century ago, but the youtube comments are the last place I take someone seriously, lol

If you think they practiced sustainability for centuries, then explain why they had to travel thousands of miles to harvest sponges here instead of staying in Greece. Also, explain why the govt had to step in and regulate the industry by requiring that the sponges be cut so that they can regrow, instead of harvesting the entire animal, as they have done for centuries.

They think their experts .I totally agree with you Martin 👍

Curious don't you think that the vast majority of the sponges don't come from Greece anymore then? Why is that? Maybe because Greece has better environmental & sustainability regulations than the US, so limits harvests to sustainable levels, while the US does not? It's just over 100 years they've been harvesting in this location & they've gone from the ground being literally covered in them to having to walk miles looking for the same number they previously found in a 2 square metre area. Don't need to be an expert to understand that means the industry is NOT sustainable & they are taking FAR more than are growing

5 minutes of sponges and 5 minutes of climate change. 1 electric vehicle commercial and 1 WOKE ideology commercial.

That's because they aren't actually more common. Lol.

i bought a sea sponge in Greece when i was on vacation. Its so good

Tbh i myself taught sponges were made from plastic tho thats the one i use cus it just too expensive for my wallet lol until now because those mf be harvesting sea sponges and that shit look crazy.Anyways for me i do say sea sponges do take a hella long time to form especially the expensive ones ive heard from greece cus they produce high quality sea sponge tho it did damaged the eco system down there.

I went to that town a week ago and went into a restaurant, there was a guy playing the Bouzouki and we chat abt Greek music and such , as a musician myself I enjoyed the convo , I had no idea how many Greeks live there

so I'm curious, do you have harvest limits there? This doesn't seem sustainable in this video does it!

@@mehere8038 You weren't paying attention, were you? The sponges regrow. They cut them instead of uprooting them to damage them less and only harvest large ones.

Theres like 10…

they are filter feeders, not plants. they require the environment they live in naturally, because they eat the waste products of that environment.

@@aidanacebo9529 do they though? I don't know, but I know a lot of fish farms have extensive waste, I wonder if adding these into those farms could be a good solution to that, while giving the sponges everything they need too? There's certainly prawn farms out there also growing seaweeds for food, using the waste from the prawns to do so, the reason for the seaweed being to meet environmental standards, but the way they do that gives them additional profits in the process

@@mehere8038 I'm not certain. I'm sure something along those lines could be done, but farming the sponge it's self, I'm not sure there's a big enough market for them as it is. I mean, most of the money stems from tourism where they are, then comes export.

@@mehere8038 sea sponges are tough but they can only handle the amount of waste that a coral reef can produce but a fish farm produces insane amounts of waste that I do not think a whole sea bed of them could actually keep up with the bacteria and disease being created from all the fish poop. Also they naturally grow so you would need to dig a shit ton of em up and replace them which could kill them alone

Or just take better care of environment. Farms have serious biological n environmental problems of their own.

what do you want to know? they are filter feeders, they will regrow from the tiniest part. they can live for many years, if not decades. they have lots of uses besides what was stated, lots of homes built from the teens to the 60s in that area use sponges as insulation. I actually worked for Taso, for about a year. Born and raised in Dunedin, just south of tarpon springs. I spent every day in that town, sometimes weeks at a time. I miss it.

@@aidanacebo9529 thanks for the informative reply. How do the Sponges reproduce and why do they mainly grow in tarpon springs?

@@Tripl3Doubl3 the closest sponge bed is about 10 miles NW of tarpon springs. it's not like they are back up in the bayou. we would go out for weeks, sometimes a month straight. sponge captains are understandably a little leery of giving away the locations of the sponge beds they frequent. it's also not just tarpon springs, Key West had a good sponge industry until the 90s. there's a great movie about it, filmed in the 60s in Tarpon Springs and Key West, called "below the 12 mile reef". I suggest you check it out.

@@Tripl3Doubl3 and as for how sponges reproduce? I'm not entirely certain. what I do know, is that they are the second lowest life form on earth, and they are animals. they aren't plants. they are more akin to coral. the sponge it's self is the skeleton of the animal. it has a skin to it, and to 'cure' the sponge, you have to dry it out and beat it with a stick, and soak it, and dry it out and beat it with a stick again. rinse and repeat, literally. all I did for hours every day was beat and rinse and beat and rinse. and the smell is God Awful. that's why I stopped. it's a dead animal. a dead fish smell, except this thing eats all the waste of the fish. so it smells extra bad.

@@Tripl3Doubl3 Like mushrooms true pores 🤷

I mean most people arent using actual sea sponges to bathe or clean dishes... what?

@@chadandersen6590 maybe now, a lot of people still use these animals though

The food in Tarpon is fantastic. It's almost impossible for a chain restaurant to open in the city, due to ordinances. The place is basically wall to wall mom and pop resturants and stores. And all of them are so, so good.

@@Thehouseoffail thank you… I love Mediterranean! Now, I’m excited to put it on the list!

Leave them in the ocean.

I was legit coming to write a very similar comment. The footage of them trudging along the sea floor made me cringe. And perhaps there would be less toxic algal blooms if the sea grass beds, bivalves, sponges, and other filters were all left intact doing their jobs?... There would also be clearer water, more sea life, and stabilization against storms that would all help bolster ecotourism.

well they have been managing the sponge beds for more than a 100 years the real threat is tampa bay releasing massive amounts of sewage into the water causing red tide that kills everything

Yeah if it hurts the animals, these ppl that depend their life on carefully harvesting them should just go neck themselves or let their families starve to death. They are humans and sponges are animals. These people need to take advantage of sponges to make a living. So be it. Stop bitching about sponges when u do nothing anyway to propose an actual solution.

All for a sponge that we can easily manufacture

Sponge! Bob! Square! Pants!

I could hear spongebob scream when the sponge was getting snipped by scissors

Not for long.

SpongeBob SquarePants

Oh yeah the place where the nuke bomb was dropped

What stuff do you recommend ?

Want to visit someday... Love 🇲🇾

One of the worst things for the environment…

@@ErinRaciell lmao. not at all. And im glad that the sponge population in the Mediterranean, the old source, is now recovering.

@@therasbull amazing the people who can be credited with saving species. I believe Viiagra had similar effects, saving huge numbers of endangered animals that had previously been used in traditional medicine to address the same issues that medication does

Well, it will all be ruined and too expensive one day soon with everyone moving there from New York.

Aside from the fact one is made in Greece and the other is made in Florida?

Yeah, and it makes me wonder if they mentioned gLoBaL WaRmInG as many times as she did in this video. Of course the weather changes! It's called Mother Nature and Seasons, which have been evolving for millinia!!

"very strict" lol

@@mastergreyskull523 Yes, they can only harvest a certain number per day. There is only one boat and crew allowed to harvest. VERY STRICT.

@@chefnic4763 it's clearly not! Or if it is, then it's still incorrectly set at limits that are above growth rates, therefore depleting reserves - as they say in this video

@@mehere8038 I can only speak for what I saw in the Key West. What happens in other parts of Florida, I don't know 🤷🏻‍♀️

@@chefnic4763 but you don't even know if one boat is low enough in harvest levels to be sustainable do you? Or do you? Do you know what the environmental studies on the sponges have said is a sustainable annual harvest number & how that compares to what is being harvested in that one boat? & then yeh, in addition to that you potentially have other boats from other areas harvesting too, so there's clearly nothing at all "strict" in genuinely protecting the sponges & ensuring harvests are kept to below reproduction rates

It can be sustainable if they are not greedy, like the reporter have said, sponges can regenerate incredibly fast. Or rather they can clone themselves very fast.

I was waiting for it lol. In these videos, I always wait for the "But recently there's been..."

energy companies

Shipping, middlemen, import taxes, and retail costs.

I live in Florida in a coastal town, it's more like a "get everything you can " situation when it comes to the red tide The red tide, also called blood tide, is a tide of Karenia brevis algae blooms that kills *everything* in it's path and even makes the people very sick, it leaves millions of animals dead every year and ruins our beaches and every Floridian has seen that terrible blood red color and smelled the smell of hundreds of thousands of rotting marine life corpses on our shore

It's his livelihood, man. "Considering conservation" and "letting them recover" mean he goes hungry, at the time, his kids go hungry, maybe worse. I'm as much of an advocate for biodiversity and the environment as the next guy, but I completely understand why Captain Taso never did that. People do what they have to to survive.

@@mushhaus3967 sponges filter out stuff like that though don't they! I think you're way past the point where leaving sponges would make a significant impact on those, BUT lets not lose track of the fact that it's messing with the eco-system that causes that stuff & so taking the last of the sponges absolutely has the potential to make that problem worse, and to introduce new problems you haven't though of yet, just like red tides were unheard of in a time when the seabed was literally COVERED in these sponges eating any algae they could get hold of! It's absolutely irresponsible to say "oh well we've already destroyed the environment, so who cares if we destroy it some more too" - which is what I'm hearing in your comment

@@delafontainedoes7664 Plenty of alternate jobs available. That doesn't fly as an excuse either! No reason he can't get a part time job working in one of those tourist restaurants to supplement his income instead of taking the last of the sponges & wiping out the entire industry & tourism industry along with it. VERY short sighted to focus on eating today while wiping out all potential to eat tomorrow! PLENTY of countries limit the allowable catch, even this guy's native country! People there don't die of starvation because of it, do they!

The ever "looming" climate crisis, the narrative never ceases to be the scapegoat for all of mankind's woes

meanwhile there's another commenter saying there's been daily severe storms all summer, to the point of flooding & a total inability of fishing or tourist boats to even get out of the docks

@@mehere8038 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 meanwhile everyone from tarpon has been boating all summer and I'll be going out tomorrow

@@mehere8038 They lied.

RU-vid uses a different codec for videos with lesser number of views, or sometimes it depends on the channel avg views too

@@AjanKan are you referring to AV1 vs VP9? There's not a huge noticeable quality difference there with the settings they use

Betty?

there is, it is "so expensive" video

Yeah. About Greek sponges.

So they are only harvested after years.