Fisheries management

Background Facts • Lake Ontario provides drinking water to 9 million people. • More Canadians live in the Lake Ontario watershed than any other watershed in the country. • Lake Ontario never completely freezes because it is so deep. • Lake Ontario is one of the 5 Great Lakes, which comprise 20% of the world’s surface freshwater. • Lake Ontario is the 14th largest lake in the world. • Water from the Great Lakes flows through Lake Ontario, before flowing into the Atlantic Ocean • Lake Ontario is…

In the Alaskan Gold movie the fishermen and the miners were debating over weather they should leave the ecosystem for the salmon to spawn in or mine the land. This is an important economic issue because the mines could bring in a lot of money in revenue but it also could destroy the salmons spawning streams. I believe that the land should be used for mining for many reasons, but especially because it would be the largest containment of gold and copper in North America, and because of the money…

Alaska has an interesting history with fishing, from even before it became a state, when it was acquired by the United States from Russia in 1867 (Naske 1994). Gold miners, whalers, and fishermen were some of the first Americans to move northward to Alaska for natural resources riches. Since the late 1880s, commercial fishing has been an important part of the Alaskan culture and economy (Sechrist & Rutz). In the early 1940s, when Alaska was still a territory, the United States joined WW II. The…

A myriad of topics were discussed in the Frontline documentary, The Fish on my Plate, as journalist Paul Greenberg began a challenge of eating fish every day for an entire year. Greenberg defined this challenge as a way to better understand how fish are beneficial to diets as well as the environment. As this challenge progressed, Greenberg explored the global consumption of fish, overfishing, aquaculture, and the health benefits found in the consumption of fish. I had a few preconceived notions…

The Dam Problem with the Decline of Pacific Northwest Salmon For generations upon generations, native Salmon have played a crucial part in the culture of the Pacific Northwest. Native American culture has been influenced and built around salmon. Today, salmon populations are at an all-time low and populations are still plummeting. Many subspecies have gone extinct. Throughout the next several pages, I am going to explore what salmon are, how they have been used, what led to their decline, what…

fishing and climate change together. This is any issue that has been going on for quite a while. It is a problem for many people in the US and for people in other countries all over the world as well. In 1996 the legislature passed an act called the Fisheries Conservation Act. Unfortunately this act did not work and the marine species population continued to go down at a fast rate. One of the many causes of this marine life problem is the demand for fish and other types of seafood in the US. As…

A. Title The effect of type of net on reducing bycatch B. Introduction/Purpose “ Demand for seafood and advances in technology have led to fishing practices that are depleting fish and shellfish population around the world. Fishers remove more than 77 billion kilograms (170 billion pounds) of wildlife from the sea each year”( National Geographic 2015). The depletion of fish across the globe could lead to many economic and environmental issues if the amount of bycatch is not reduced…

Charles Clover addresses the serious issue of overfishing and the impacting is having around various oceans around the world. Clover argues that the current fishing practices and illegal fishing along with the use of high tech equipments, are reducing fish stocks significantly, for larger quantities of fish are being taken out of the ocean at a rate that is impossible for fish stocks to recover in number and survive. He analyzes the situation showing how the fish crisis is affecting today and…

that Alaska fisheries are extremely vulnerable to the effects from OA in the region’s four seas that ring Alaska--the Chukchi, Beaufort, Bering, and Gulf of Alaska (See Appendix A, Image 1) (Mathis et al., 2014). Alaska’s fishing industry currently supports more than 100,000 jobs and generates over $5.8 billion in annual revenues while contributing to the balance of trade in the U.S. (Mathis, et al., 2014). Southeast Alaska was identified by Mathis as the primary hub for commercial fisheries in…

The five Great Lakes; Lake Superior, Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, and Lake Erie together form the largest freshwater source in the world. The Great Lakes are home to many animals and essential resource to living creatures. Life would be very different without the Great Lakes. The Great Lakes are an important part of Canadians resource. They are currently being destroyed by pollution, overfishing, chemical waste and climate change. Economically, without the Great Lakes, Canada would…