Fishing for Trouble: The need for world wide enhanced regulations and policies Fishing has caused devastating issues to the environment and inhabitants. It has once been said that there is an unlimited supply of fish in the lakes, oceans and seas. Because these bodies of water are known to be extremely massive, it would be virtually impossible for it to be over fished. Right now, the world’s current population is over seven billion people, and the demand for fish has never been higher as even more common consumed marine organisms are getting depleted every year to the point of the endangered state or completely extinct from either being consumed or from the destruction of their environmental habitat. This world wide environmental issue
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This leads to the first reason to why we should have stricter laws and regulation for fishing is for issues including the Cod Moratorium of the Atlantic Northwest where some rare and expensive fish were on the brink of extinction in the waters of Newfoundland and Labrador. John Crosbie, the minister of fisheries imposed a Moratorium in 1992 to protect the Northern cod population. Fishing regulations are also enacted to protect more than the commercial stocks of marine life on the water. Other organisms that are under pressure due to fishing are the coral reefs caused by excessive fishing. This is done indirectly by human actions through ecosystem shifts and changes. The coral reef environment requires stability in order to continue proper functioning. However, when fish populations that are a part of that specific environment are being over fished, then the moderate balance of this ecosystem is disrupted which leads to harmful damage. The problem with damage done to the coral reef ecosystem is that the damage is almost always long term effects and usually permanent. This is because coral is known to be sedentary, meaning it takes a very long period of time to regrow and often the damage is so severe that the possibility of regrowth was
This leads to the first reason to why we should have stricter laws and regulation for fishing is for issues including the Cod Moratorium of the Atlantic Northwest where some rare and expensive fish were on the brink of extinction in the waters of Newfoundland and Labrador. John Crosbie, the minister of fisheries imposed a Moratorium in 1992 to protect the Northern cod population. Fishing regulations are also enacted to protect more than the commercial stocks of marine life on the water. Other organisms that are under pressure due to fishing are the coral reefs caused by excessive fishing. This is done indirectly by human actions through ecosystem shifts and changes. The coral reef environment requires stability in order to continue proper functioning. However, when fish populations that are a part of that specific environment are being over fished, then the moderate balance of this ecosystem is disrupted which leads to harmful damage. The problem with damage done to the coral reef ecosystem is that the damage is almost always long term effects and usually permanent. This is because coral is known to be sedentary, meaning it takes a very long period of time to regrow and often the damage is so severe that the possibility of regrowth was