Seafood and forms of ocean vegetation have long pervaded the proverbial tables and the human lives of history. From trading shells in Central and South American tribal peoples, to coastal fishing villages in the Mediterranean and parts of Asia and large coastal trading ports that travel ,carrying large seafood finds, to foreign countries; Ocean life has fed and provided goods to hundreds of cultures. Today, the seafood market is dominated by forms of commercial fishing, fish farms and illegal ocean farming that attempt to keep up with the growing 7 billion population. Commercial fishing and other forms of large ocean and sea life crop farming have hugely negative effects on the ecological stability of the ocean environment. Human attempts
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In the past 15 to 20 years, interest in Whaling and fighting Whaling groups and countries has seen a rise. Specifically, against Japan. The Japanese “Whale Wars”, is a legal and environmental battle between the United States and Japan concerning their use and excuse of “research” to procure and kill upwards of 400 whales a year. This battle started in the late 80’s after several rights groups attempted to force and coerce the United States into stopping and making international sanctions against the excused killing of these animals. With a simple google search, most people know and understand that the whale population, all species, is dwindling rapidly, with many of them listed by world governments as endangered species. There is an article by Kazuo Sumi pertaining to the subject called “The Whale War between Japan and the United States: Problems and Prospects” which discusses the issue as well as lays out the timeline for how the situation was addressed. One of the more significant things the the article spells out is the difficulty in placing sanctions that can be enforced in international waters, as well as, creating laws against the fishing of certain species and overfishing that will be followed by other countries (Sumi 317). Even to this day, the United States makes attempts to stop Japanese Whaling ships from capturing whales. This both poses a problem to the oceanic ecosystem and the Japanese
In the past 15 to 20 years, interest in Whaling and fighting Whaling groups and countries has seen a rise. Specifically, against Japan. The Japanese “Whale Wars”, is a legal and environmental battle between the United States and Japan concerning their use and excuse of “research” to procure and kill upwards of 400 whales a year. This battle started in the late 80’s after several rights groups attempted to force and coerce the United States into stopping and making international sanctions against the excused killing of these animals. With a simple google search, most people know and understand that the whale population, all species, is dwindling rapidly, with many of them listed by world governments as endangered species. There is an article by Kazuo Sumi pertaining to the subject called “The Whale War between Japan and the United States: Problems and Prospects” which discusses the issue as well as lays out the timeline for how the situation was addressed. One of the more significant things the the article spells out is the difficulty in placing sanctions that can be enforced in international waters, as well as, creating laws against the fishing of certain species and overfishing that will be followed by other countries (Sumi 317). Even to this day, the United States makes attempts to stop Japanese Whaling ships from capturing whales. This both poses a problem to the oceanic ecosystem and the Japanese