Overfishing

Fishing has become a problem all over the world because of many reasons. Some of these reasons are due to improper fishing techniques have done damage to the environment, pollution has contaminated fish, and some species of fish and other sea life have been driven to extinction. Fishing in the Atlantic has fallen into very tough times. This is due to the accumulated chemicals in the environment due to contaminants from pollution and waste in any water source which at the end gets to the…

The Sea Lamprey is a dangerous and destructive fish for the great lakes ecosystem. This species feeds on a great lake fish and needs to be put under control in order to save fish populations in the great lakes and it needs to be stopped. One of the biggest problems with Sea Lamprey is that “Sea lamprey acts as parasitic and invasive species in each new habitat. It attacks and decreases the population of native fish and disturbs the natural balance of the ecosystem”(Softschools.com). An…

Introduction Invasive species are continually documented as a major risk to ecosystem health and worldwide biodiversity. Invasive marine fish introductions are still considered relatively rare and historically the environmental effects are often discounted. This is different from historically famous invasive species such as the zebra mussels in The Great Lakes, which caused well-documented harmful economic and environmental effects. While these are considered rare, they have been documented,…

Somali Pirates have been terrorising the coast of eastern Africa for over a decade. Starting off as innocent fisher men and now becoming the notoriously dangerous seamen that will hold their victims at gunpoint for a large ransom working for the war lords that are continually fighting for power and land. Somalia now famous for its piracy antics and dangerous waters were once known for its growing fishing industry and its diverse marine life. Somalia has been crippled by lawlessness, poverty,…

The results to this experiment means that the more C02 boster we added to the tank the fish died faster and the C02 booster was replaced to act as the pollution , so in other words if there is many pollution in the ocean the fish and other living organisms in the ocean will have the chance to die faster . According to the results me and my group’s hypothesis was supported/was proven correct , the fish in the tank that was exposed to the most C02 died faster .The fish that were exposed to the…

At first, the Aral sea was a very plentiful hotspot for boating and fishing. Throughout the years, the sea has been decreased in size by 90 percent leaving a much smaller body of water very high in salinity. Due to the sudden increase of salinity, the fish and plant population has decreased greatly. This means that the large fishing industry was gone and the humans were impacted immensely. The big question was, “How did it happen?” this is easily answered by “the impact of humans. Without…

Did you know that some jellyfish can lay up to 40,000 eggs each day? Research shows that there are more than 200 types of jellyfish with different shapes and sizes. Since most jellyfish lay tons of eggs every day the population is growing too fast. New studies present that the increase of population affects the industry, the ecology, and even humans. Therefore there are some interesting solutions to control the jellyfish population. The jellyfish is nothing like a fish it has no skeleton and…

of Norway and Southeast of Greenland, and Urates Barents Sea with coastal waters of Northern Norway, along with waters that merge the Taroe Islands, southwest of North Sea. The size of the Norwegian Sea, stops where it ends, with surface area of 1,380,000 sq. Km, although size is questionable. “Average depth runs 1,700 meters (5,577 ft.), while the maximum depth of North Sea has been measured at 3,970 meters (13,020 ft.)” (www.WorldAtlas.com). The Norwegian Sea, Norway and United Kingdom, have…

Bottom trawling is a high-efficiency fishing technique in global coastal fisheries [1], but with negative effects on marine benthos [2]. Bottom trawling affects seabed environments by dragging a net on the seabed and suspending sediments [3]. In addition, this fishing activity threatens marine benthic biodiversity and destroys the structures of benthic ecosystems [4]. Fishers have been concerned with these impacts for 600 years [5]. Over the past half century, the impacts of bottom trawling have…

Tran Ngo English 11 Miss Leeson Research Paper Irrawaddy Dolphin The practice of capturing fish from the aquatic ecosystem has not only brought people delicious, luxurious, and nutrient-rich seafood to their dishes but also great benefits from the sales of fish, lobsters, or crabs. However, these benefits come along with a sacrifice of many unwanted underwater organisms, which are important to the ecosystem but threatened by humans’ dangerous fishing practices—bycatch, explosive fishing, etc.…