Fisheries

Why do you want to serve? My parents grew up in an improvised rural village in China, I knew their importance of having their children find a worthy job, which is financially stable. My parents are very proud of my sister obtaining her medical degree. Then there was me, I got C’s and B’s in my first year in college and I had no direction in my life as a business major. When I had the opportunity to trek through the lust rainforest of Sumatra, I know instantly I wanted to work in the environment.…

closer to 1 indicates that there is a strong correlation between salinity and conductivity. The higher the conductivity, the higher the salinity in the water. There will be ecological implications in the estuary such as a decrease in water quality and fishery. The results also suggest that the MSX disease in oyster which is caused by a parasite when salinity rise above 15ppt will be present in the region of Tangier sound. Considering the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Restoration Project, I do not…

Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania (Academic, Environmental Activist, Biologist, Journalist) on a 65-acre farm. Growing up Rachel spent her time enjoying her love for nature that she owed to her mother. Her mother taught her from a young age how to love the outdoors and to love birds, insects and the animals that inhabit the streams and ponds as well as her love for reading and writing. She would soon prove her love of writing when she would get her first…

The Chartiers Creek watershed is located in southwestern PA and flows north for 52.4 miles through Allegheny and Washington counties. It has two sections: the upper section that is mostly located in Allegheny county, and the lower section in north/central Washington county. It’s overall size is approximately 227 square miles and it discharges into the Ohio river at McKees Rocks. Chartiers Creek’s water is utilized for agricultural, recreational, and domestic purposes (Dunkle, 2016). The upper…

to their desired crops and lumber. Trading first began among the islanders of the East Indies as they made their way around Island hopping. It is believed that is how People from the East Indies wind up living on the island of Madagascar. Local fisheries were also a major source of income for people. While kings and queens ruled over places in India and Africa the East Indies were more in the control of wealthy merchants, as they were the ones bringing in all the money from trade. The greatest…

The effects result, therefore, in damage productive sectors such as agriculture and fisheries, in road infrastructure, dwellings and thousands of victims for loss of their property and means of life and health affectations by increasing diseases vectors proliferate temporary changes in climate regimes. The most documented and known impacts…

Jaws Jaws is a book by American author Peter Benchley. It is based on a true story of two amateur fishermen who caught and killed a great white shark that attacked and killed four people along the East Coast of America in 1916. It was published in 1974 and shortly after was made into a movie in 1975. Jaws is about a gigantic, terrifying, great white shark that preys on anyone and everyone on Amity Island. Jaws was a first of its kind. People knew of sharks and had known little about them;…

people treat Aborigines as ‘animals’ and they’re legally seen as animals. The Aboriginals have a government department that discriminates them as non-human. “Miss Dunn enters an office with a sign displayed, reading ‘Government of Western Australia, fisheries, forestry, wildlife and Aborigines’.” Davis represents this idea of an uncivilised race through the use of imagery, painting a picture in reader’s minds of how Aboriginals are treated as an uncivilised race. Both The Help and No Sugar…

Adaptive capacity and vulnerability. Another prominent concept relative to policy focuses on a system’s adaptive capacity to respond and the vulnerability of functions that cannot adapt to changing climate. More specifically, adaptive capacity, Burton et al. (2002) argue, is “the ability of a system to adjust to climate change, including climate vulnerability and extremes, to moderate potential damages, to take advantages of opportunities, or to cope with the consequences” (p. 149). That is,…

Hoover Dam is considered to be one of the must see sights apart from The Strip when one goes to Las Vegas. Apart from being an attraction for tourists to come to see it, also provides enough power to serve 1.3 million people for residents in Arizona, Southern California, and Southern Nevada. From the Dam alone it produces on average 4 billion kilowatt-hours of hydroelectric energy (“Hoover Dam”). Hydropower is being looked at as an safe alternate source of energy. There have been several debates…