Overfishing

of the oceans daily, it will be. This is overfishing; depleting stocks of fish in a body of water by too much fishing. This is the problem that will be explained by this paper, as well as the background of it and possible solutions to solve the problem. Now the history of overfishing will be explained. According to Greenpeace International, “since the…

this problem can be attributed to two probable causes. In this essay, I will examine this issue and give some possible solutions. One plausible explanation for overfishing is profit-oriented of large fishing companies. Because of their lucrative target, the prominent mass fishing recent years caused biological imbalance. In addition, overfishing leads to damage their environment in the oceans as well as their organisms. For example, thousands of tons fish are caught every year including rare…

All of these will be explained in more detail below. 1. Overfishing and Overexploitation of Fishery Species and their Effects on the Ecosystem According to Blackhart et al. (2003), overfishing refers to reducing a population stock to a threshold level below which the stock can recover from. It means that the rate of fishing mortality may be greater than the rate at which the…

Commercial overfishing is a problem that is often discussed and scrutinized, with improvements made to fishery sustainability and methods of practice. While this may be considered progress, few species suffer the same peril that the sharks of our oceans do. Sharks are the apex predators of our waters, and if we continue our ways we run the risk of threatening our entire oceanic food chain. One may ask how this has become such a real possibility, and the answer is both simple and disturbing –…

populations were being depleted faster than they could be replenished and within a short amount of time, many of the once abundant fish species had been reduced to small, isolated populations. To tackle the problem of overfishing, three big reliable methods can be used to stop overfishing and prevent major fish species from going extinct. The first method is known as the catch share and this is a management system where fisherman and fisheries are granted a secure specific amount of fish so that…

However, overfishing has put a strain on fish populations. “Scientific research shows that more than 90 percent of large fish are now gone from the oceans” (Mann 205). The author states that due to the escalated fishing that is taking place, a plethora of fish are no…

The ocean is viewed as a resource to be used at the pleasure of humans, but it is often forgotten that it can and will be used up. The amount of overfishing happening is atrocious. The worst part is that millions of pounds of marine life taken from the ocean are unintentional. Fishing companies go out with the intention of catching a select few species of fish and any other type of marine life that is captured in the process is considered bycatch. The methods that fishing companies use are…

water showed a negative recruitment relationship. Therefore, warming of the water from climate change preceding the collapse of the cod stock and its negative effects on recruitment and spawning biomass may have exasperated other problems such as overfishing. This issue is highlighted in a recent study conducted by Pershing and colleagues (2015) where they found that warmer waters reduce the productivity of spawning females. Suggesting that the warming of the water during the early 1990s…

Problem Statement: How can U.S. Fisheries prevent or decrease the harm to the ecological environment from overfishing of tuna fish? Background: The United States is overfishing the Atlantic coast with a variety of new-age fishing methods, which has destroyed and will continue to further damage our ocean’s ecological systems. Since the 21st century began, industrial fishing off the Unites States’ coasts have drastically changed in their methods to provide citizens of this country with a…

consumes 10 percent of the world's fish.” Japan consumes a lot of fish because logically they are an island surrounded by water. Many nations are accused of overfishing, but Japan's overfishing has caused the population of tuna (especially the Bluefin tuna) to decrease. Tuna populations have been decreasing due to overfishing since the 70's but overfishing has had the worst effect on the Bluefin Tuna. The Bluefin tuna population…