Most people never think twice about bycatch. These clips show the opposite: a deliberate decision to return animals that were already in hand. Is this meaningful conservation, or does it only matter because we can see the individual animals? And would the same choice feel different if no one was filming?

🪱 Someone caught two eels and chose to put them back instead of keeping them.

🐡A pufferfish was rescued and released back into the ocean.

🐢 An endangered turtle was cut free from a fishing net and released.

A guitarfish (a ray relative, not a shark) was pulled from a net and returned to the water.

🦔 A porcupine fish (distinct from a regular puffer) was found and put back in the sea.