Persuasive Essay About Overfishing A Fish

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Its a relaxing early morning as we sit on a fishing boat, rocking gently back and forth as the small waves move the boat while wait for a bite. Fishing is relaxing for some poeple in this area but we don't know is that in this world there are fewer and fewer fish everyday. According to National Geographic (.com) that by 1989 over 90 million metric tons of fish had been fished out of oceans by big time comercial fishing companies. what is overfishing you ask? well according to National Geographic (ADD CITE) "it is the taking of wildlife from the sea at rates too high for fished species to replace themselves." Meaning due to local and comercial fishermen, invandece in technology and the steady demand for fresh seafood we are taking more fish …show more content…

next, we will hook some effects, and finally, we will reeling in a few solutions. The first recorded instiances, according again to national geographic, began in the 19th century when humans discovered that they could use wale oil to light their lamps and severely overhunted the whale population in order to met the steap demand for light. In receant decadeds humanity also saw the overfishing of Atlantic cod, herring and California's sardines, nearly to their extinction. As highlighted in both greenpeace.org and National Geographics overfishing is a direct result of industrialization and the increase of commercial fishing. What is happening is that in the commercial fishing industry they are fishing at fast pace in order to quickly make a profit at the expense of longterm sustainability of the oceans ecostistem. This will ultimatly lead to a lack of fish, destruction of many oceanic wildlife homes and the extinction of many species of desired fish if not corrected quickly.

So now that we've taken a look at overfishing and why its still a problem we will now shine a light on some unknown effects of …show more content…

One example of a country that does this is Japan and thier problem with overfishing whales. The whale populations in the past have been hunted nearly to extinction. Recently The World international court ordered Japan to cease hunting whales, but Japan does not wishing to chang its ways, stated by Independent News in the UK in April of 2014. Japan sees whale meat as a good sorce of protein and does not wish to lose their source of

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