There are many contributing factors that have lead up to a depletion our our ocean fish. As our underwater wildlife ecosystem decreases, we keep moving backwards with fisheries overfishing and diminishing the underwater wildlife. Overfishing occurs when there is a popular fishing area constantly being fished out to the point where the reproduction cycle can't keep up. Recent studies have shown that overfishing has exploited 52% of fish stock (subpopulations of a particular species of fish). More than 85% percent of the world’s fisheries have been pushed to or beyond their limits and are in need of strict management plans to restore them. Overfishing occurred because of catching too much fish for the system to support leads to an overall degradation
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Overfishing has impacts on the rest of the marine ecosystem, such as the rapid growth of algae and coral reef health. Overfishing is also closely tied to bycatch, another serious marine threat that causes the needless loss of billions of fish, along with marine turtles and cetaceans. Ocean overfishing simply means catching fish from sea at rates too high where fish stocks become too depleted to recover. With oceans taking up over 70% of the Earth, ocean life and the overall survival of marine life is essential for holding life elsewhere on the planet, but overfishing is having drastic effects on the future of both ocean and land inhabitants. The lack of order and the fact that fishing has been a hobie tied to the beginning of time of humans, many groups, like the World Wildlife Fund, are helping people understand the effects of …show more content…
If we don't change our fishing habit or set restriction on fishing, then it will lead to an end of our fish supply, an abundance of non-targeted animals and a depletion of natural predators. Fishing in the tropics are expected to decrease by 40%. Some areas that are already being effect includes Southern Chile, The Galapagos, Arctic, Coastal East Africa, Coral Triangle, and the Gulf of California. Within those impacted areas, top fishing predators such as tuna, shark, sturgeon and other various fish in the large predator fish (LPF) are causing large quantities of smaller underwater animals to thrive at the bottom of the food chain. With the LPF category being overfished by 90%, this disrupts the overall ocean food chain to cause threats on coral reefs with a huge increase of algae for example. As a result, it not only unbalanced underwater life but offsets the economics of coastal cities the depend on fish being a primary food source. On a global scale, the fish industry provides 3 billion people with over 20% of their protein coming from fish. In the year of 2050, fishing experts are warning top fisheries that fish stocks are bound to crash completely during the estimated year. In the end effect, our ocean ecosystems with reach a point of being unable to recover from the predicted
Overfishing has impacts on the rest of the marine ecosystem, such as the rapid growth of algae and coral reef health. Overfishing is also closely tied to bycatch, another serious marine threat that causes the needless loss of billions of fish, along with marine turtles and cetaceans. Ocean overfishing simply means catching fish from sea at rates too high where fish stocks become too depleted to recover. With oceans taking up over 70% of the Earth, ocean life and the overall survival of marine life is essential for holding life elsewhere on the planet, but overfishing is having drastic effects on the future of both ocean and land inhabitants. The lack of order and the fact that fishing has been a hobie tied to the beginning of time of humans, many groups, like the World Wildlife Fund, are helping people understand the effects of …show more content…
If we don't change our fishing habit or set restriction on fishing, then it will lead to an end of our fish supply, an abundance of non-targeted animals and a depletion of natural predators. Fishing in the tropics are expected to decrease by 40%. Some areas that are already being effect includes Southern Chile, The Galapagos, Arctic, Coastal East Africa, Coral Triangle, and the Gulf of California. Within those impacted areas, top fishing predators such as tuna, shark, sturgeon and other various fish in the large predator fish (LPF) are causing large quantities of smaller underwater animals to thrive at the bottom of the food chain. With the LPF category being overfished by 90%, this disrupts the overall ocean food chain to cause threats on coral reefs with a huge increase of algae for example. As a result, it not only unbalanced underwater life but offsets the economics of coastal cities the depend on fish being a primary food source. On a global scale, the fish industry provides 3 billion people with over 20% of their protein coming from fish. In the year of 2050, fishing experts are warning top fisheries that fish stocks are bound to crash completely during the estimated year. In the end effect, our ocean ecosystems with reach a point of being unable to recover from the predicted