Why Overfishing Is Bad
Overfishing is “the act of catching fish from the oceans faster than the the fish can reproduce and replace the caught fish numbers. Modern day technology and hi-tech equipments have made it easy to catch a larger number of fish in a shorter span of time and with minimal effort. The more and more fish are caught the lesser they are found in the waters. This is one of the main reasons that fishermen have to travel longer distances deeper into the sea to catch fish.”
Because of our rapidly expanding population we are in dire need of food sources more and more each day, the results in the overfishing of the world's sea life to support our. Why we need to stop overfishing is simple, the species of fish will be too little and the only thing that …show more content…
Sharks eat fish such as lantern fish and amphipods. These fish are the one who eat types of zooplankton and phytoplankton because zooplankton and phytoplankton produce 80% of our oxygen it is important to keep them alive. If we did not have sharks the other fish populations which will be overcrowded because sharks have been overfished, they will eat all the plankton, and we would lose a large source of oxygen. Overfishing also has large impacts on the economy which can be seen in our home state of Maryland where oysters have been overfished and because of this has significantly hurt the local economy because fisherman cannot sell them for profit, large distributors cannot sell them countrywide being fewer jobs for people in the area, and local restaurant may make less money because there oysters are not locally …show more content…
One being to create more marine protected areas, the point of this is that if there are more no catch zones it would allow the fishes, and the surrounding ecosystems to recover. Another option is to stop trawling. Trawling is a fishing technique that drags huge nets through the ocean that scoop up every animal and the ecosystem in its path. The sad result of this is a massive wasteful bycatch, one where dead fish are returned to the sea because they weren’t the targeted fish. It is unnecessary for us to waste see life like this and by outlawing Trawling it would help. Catch shares is another viable option as it would allow fish to recover and at the same time not decimate communities that rely on fishing as a livelihood. “A study of American and British Columbian catch shares system found that over a decade, the total allowable catch increased 19 percent, by-catch decreased by 66 percent, and fishermen made 68 percent more money while having one-third fewer accidents on the job. And 100 percent of fishing businesses complied, rarely going over their limit”. Lastly things everyone can do are one educate the uneducated and two make good consumer decisions when buying fish products because if everyone even does a little it will help
Because of our rapidly expanding population we are in dire need of food sources more and more each day, the results in the overfishing of the world's sea life to support our. Why we need to stop overfishing is simple, the species of fish will be too little and the only thing that …show more content…
Sharks eat fish such as lantern fish and amphipods. These fish are the one who eat types of zooplankton and phytoplankton because zooplankton and phytoplankton produce 80% of our oxygen it is important to keep them alive. If we did not have sharks the other fish populations which will be overcrowded because sharks have been overfished, they will eat all the plankton, and we would lose a large source of oxygen. Overfishing also has large impacts on the economy which can be seen in our home state of Maryland where oysters have been overfished and because of this has significantly hurt the local economy because fisherman cannot sell them for profit, large distributors cannot sell them countrywide being fewer jobs for people in the area, and local restaurant may make less money because there oysters are not locally …show more content…
One being to create more marine protected areas, the point of this is that if there are more no catch zones it would allow the fishes, and the surrounding ecosystems to recover. Another option is to stop trawling. Trawling is a fishing technique that drags huge nets through the ocean that scoop up every animal and the ecosystem in its path. The sad result of this is a massive wasteful bycatch, one where dead fish are returned to the sea because they weren’t the targeted fish. It is unnecessary for us to waste see life like this and by outlawing Trawling it would help. Catch shares is another viable option as it would allow fish to recover and at the same time not decimate communities that rely on fishing as a livelihood. “A study of American and British Columbian catch shares system found that over a decade, the total allowable catch increased 19 percent, by-catch decreased by 66 percent, and fishermen made 68 percent more money while having one-third fewer accidents on the job. And 100 percent of fishing businesses complied, rarely going over their limit”. Lastly things everyone can do are one educate the uneducated and two make good consumer decisions when buying fish products because if everyone even does a little it will help