Why Overfishing Is Bad

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Keegan Morphey Mrs. Nicholson English 8, 3 28 March 2024 Overfishing In the last 6 years an estimated 4.26 billion tons of fish and invertebrates were caught and consumed from the oceans by commercial fishermen who need to fish to make a living and make money. Overfishing is a worldwide problem that is drastically affecting the marine ecosystem and the marine food chain. The regulations or laws on fishing need to be strict and better enforced because even though they are there, they are still being broken. The tax on commercial fishing is the same on all fish, so commercial fishermen are now catching more expensive or rare fish so they make more money because of the tax. There are some ways to discourage or fix overfishing. The best ways to …show more content…

Reserved waters are needed because the oceans are being over industrialized and need to be protected. If used comprehensive governance solutions like marine protected areas, ecosystem based management can be successful if combined with public demand. Even with reserved waters it will take years before the fisheries are stable because the fish need to reproduce and that takes time There is a reserved water that is 11,000 square miles Another way to discourage overfishing is creating better regulations The federal Magnuson-Stevens Act (MSA) is creating new regulations/catch limits to limit the amount of fish commercial fisherman can catch There are so many ways fishing regulations can be broken, regrowing the population will be a process so better regulations are needed and need to be enforced better One of the biggest problems was when overfishing started ( 1950s) because there was not a single regulation so commercial fisherman could catch as much as they wanted A tax on fish has been created which is kind of like a regulation so every fish caught has the same tax so it is causing fishermen to target more expensive species so the more threatened species have some time to repopulate Another new regulation is the amount of fishable water like can only fish certain parts and especially not the reserved waters My final way to discourage overfishing is limiting …show more content…

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