Explanation What is Overfishing? Why have I been so attracted to topic of saving our oceans and the abundance of wildlife it holds? Firstly, “Overfishing” is a term which is quite self-explanatory. Occurring when more fish are being taken from the ocean than the species can naturally reproduce. Secondly, having a burning passion for fish and the sport of fishing (which, not to mention, is being destroyed faster than you can eat a fillet of fish) is what drives me to have the need for change; the change that the entire world needs to take into consideration before we lose nearly all of our fish species. Knowing all harvestable fish in our ocean will be completely wiped out, is a little unsettling. Especially when it is estimated to happen to …show more content…
the ocean. What will we do without this living 70% of our Earth? As stated earlier, our fish populations are on track to be almost completely depleted by mid-century (Brown 1). Once our thriving ocean is depleted and nearly dead, what will happen to our ecosystems? Every ecosystem in the world is somehow correlated to fish in our oceans and lakes. Whether through a direct food source of many other species of animals, or indirectly through nutrients coming from fish feces or sediment from deceased fishes; our earth is highly dependent on the ocean itself. Yet, so are we... not through a direct source of food, but through the one thing that we, as living, breathing organisms need. That one thing is oxygen. Phytoplankton and other water-based autotrophs like coral and ocean plant life are estimated to create nearly 50-85% of our Earth’s oxygen (How Much Do Oceans Add to World’s Oxygen? 2). If the thought of losing a majority of the air around us alone isn’t significant enough; then whatever punishments we receive for destroying our ocean and over exploiting all of our fish, is what we …show more content…
These incentives would lie under the same table as laws and regulations that are already in place to restrict or stop overfishing/illegal fishing. These incentives, of course, would be benefits similar to benefits to that of a car insurance. In other words, when a member is a good driver for a period of time, their insurance company will offer more variety of benefits, discounts or lower premiums. Likewise with the idea of incentive; DNR (or the governmental organization in which provided the fishing license) will begin to offer benefits, discounts, lower prices on future licenses or even a small dividend paid to a fisherman or fishing
First of all, the article Too Many Fishermen enlightens the readers about the dangers and risks of overfishing. For example, on lines 12 through 15 it states, “Overfishing depletes fish stocks by taking fish at a rate faster than they can replace themselves. Many fish are harvested before they are even mature enough to reproduce. As a result, marine species are dying at an alarming rate.” The author used this evidence to better show how real and harmful the situation is. This is used by the author to help support the idea that humans have a negative impact on the ocean and helps to spread the word easier.
Overfishing is defined as a form of overexploitation where fish stocks are brought down to unacceptable levels. In the UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s 2 yearly report (SOFIA), it states how over half of the fish stocks, worldwide, are fully exploited. Other research has shown it only takes 10-15 years of industrial fishing to obliterate a tenth of the intended species. Overfishing causes a ripple effect that hurts the entire ecosystem. The balance of the chain depends largely on the interaction between the predator and the prey.
Overfishing can lead to sea creatures becoming extinct. This can ruin an entire food chain and continues
Earth's oceans make up over 75% of the Earth as a whole. With that being said, it is vital to understand the significance on the contents of the oceans. Since fish and marine products make up a large portion of our diet, fishing practices need to be properly managed. In this essay, overfishing will be defined, its consequences will be revealed, and plans for proper fish distribution will be executed.
Overfishing may have some benefits to it, but does it out way the negatives? By fulfilling our demand we can wipe out our whole oceans! Not just the fish, but water mammals too. Sure it can create jobs, but as what cost? It can help bring up our economy, but at the same time it can bring it down with many fish companies closing down due to lack of profit. Fish is a great source of nutrients, but too much can kill you! In other words, fish can be both beneficial and harmful to not only humans, but everyone and everything surrounding fish. There are three things people can do to help with overfishing, the first thing is to be aware of what you are eating. Is the fish on the fear of extinction list? Also asking yourself is the fish you’re about to eat really the fish you intend to eat? Another thing to ask is, was it shipped over seas? If it was it doesn’t benefit anyone, it won’t help the economy or you. Many fish shipped from a long ways creates pollution and may have lost its nutrients value from the long voyage. One last thing to do is if you see a sewer with a sign leading to the ocean, try not to leave trash near it, or better yet don’t litter at all! All the litter left out on streets or near sewers can cause pollution in oceans, lakes, and rivers which is very harmful for marine life. You can still enjoy fish, but not at such a high demand as
Overfishing refers to an act of fishing more than what the population can replace through normal reproduction (WWF, 2016). This was led by international government efforts to increase fishing capacity in the mid-20th century, which then led to the increase in availability and affordability of protein-rich foods. With this, profitable commercial fleets became aggressive, scouring the world’s oceans and developing sophisticated technologies to find and catch their targeted species. Thus, with a wide selection of fish species available at affordable prices, customers soon became used to them (Geographic, 2016).
I chose to discuss overfishing as my topic. The definition of overfishing is: form of overexploitation where fish stocks are reduced to below acceptable levels. Overfishing can be broken down to three main categories: overcapacity of vessels in the water, unsustainable fishing and food needs. Overfishing can occur in bodies of water of any shape and size.
In the real world, all this comes down to two serious problems. We are losing species as well as entire ecosystems. As a result, the overall ecological unity of our oceans is under stress and at risk of collapse. The affects the fish that is at the bottom of the food chain to overpopulate. If the fish that are at the bottom of the food chain overpopulate, the food they eat will become scarce This means that the fish that is at the bottom of the food chain will become extinct or endangered because of the lack of food. Another effect of overfishing that is fishing down the food chain. That will affect the species that are at the top of the food chain because the species that are at the bottom of the food is chain are important preys to them. That’s why fishers should be aware, that if they catch too much of the fish that is at the top of the food chain it will affect the whole system of predators and preys. If the fishers catch too much of fish, that’s at the top of the food chain, it would also affect the balance of predators and
Overfishing causes a disease. Overfishing uses the term slavery. Overfishing affects more than just fish. It destroys the ocean, from the coral reefs to the whales and sharks. Overfishing offsets the natural balance between animals, causing extinction in the ocean.
Everything in this world we use comes from the ocean in some way. The air we breathe, the water we drink, even the products we use day to day, would not be possible without the ocean. That's why the issue of ocean pollution is so important and needs to be addressed as soon as possible. We depend on the ocean for so much in our life, without it we would surely become extinct. People seem to think that since the ocean is so large and vast, we can dump as much waste as we'd like into it and it will never have an effect on us. However, since we've been polluting the ocean as far back as Roman times, the evidence of ocean pollution becoming a major problem is all too clear.
“Overfishing occurs when more fish are caught than the population can replace through natural reproduction”. CITATION
Overfishing is the most major problem related to oceans, but it is also the most overlooked. Fishing has been going on for thousands of years, and fish have always been seen as a renewable resource, that would replenish itself forever for our benefit. But around the world there is evidence that fish are not recove...
Please copy and paste your speech onto this doc and submit by next Monday. The sport of fishing Fishing is performed as a sport,game,hobie or an adventure. I believe it can is a great thing if you are doing it correctly it can also be a bad thing if you don’t follow the rules.
This essay will look to identify how age, race, class and gender essentially shape experiences of favela violence within Rio de Janeiro looking at different works which will include Laughter out of Place: Race, Class, Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown (Goldstein, 2003) and Violence in Rio de Janeiro: styles of leisure, drug use and trafficking (Zaluar, 2001). This essay will look to answer questions including why there is a dichotomy of how whites and blacks are perceived in the favelas, the class structure and why domestic workers of a lower background are being essentially used as slaves amongst the middle and upper-class residents in the favela, how and why young men are forced into a life of drug-dealing due to a variety of factors
Did you know that more than 90 percent of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth are extinct? According to Pandey, the author of Humans Pushing Marine Life toward ‘Major Extinction’, nearly 10,000 species go extinct each year, and this rate is estimated to be 1,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate (1). Human beings are causing irreversible damage to the oceans and their wildlife, which is being led by two major reasons: Commercial fishing or over-fishing, which damaged the marine environment and caused a loss in the marine life diversity, and pollution, which is a primary way of the extinction causes that drastically modifies the marine life habitat. As a result of the commercial fishing and pollution, many of the marine species will start disappearing of the oceans. Briggs emphasizes that over-fishing “has induced population collapses in many species. So instead of having less than a hundred species at risk, as was the case some 30-40 years ago, there are now a thousand or more (10).”