Overfishing

Overfishing

Overfishing

Week 6 Grading Rubric for Water Resource Plan Option B- Overfishing
Michelle L Harrison
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Introduction

      The imminent demise of what the ocean life supplies, all because of human compromise. Many individuals are making the choice of eating healthier. Those choices increase certain intake of foods, mainly fish.   What people fail to understand the higher demands for fish is has increase fisheries to meet those demands. To meet those demands the oceans are in a state of being overfished. “According to the Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the international body that oversees fishing around the globe, 70% of the world’s commercial fish populations are “either fully exploited, overfished, depleted” or recovering from previous overfishing” (Overfishing, 2007, p.1).   Primarily fishermen are the cause of damaged ecosystem by using certain methods to catch fish, and by overfishing certain species. The problems that arise because of the fisheries needs must be address or ocean life as we know it, will cease to exist.

 The chosen problem described
 
      Fisheries need for more fish to meet the demands of consumers is becoming a danger to the environment and causing the extinction of many types of fish. Commercial fisheries typically use trawling, longline fishing, and trapping for catching fish. Trawling is the use of large nets dragged along the bottom of the ocean floor, or mid-water depending on how high the net is in the water column.   This method is used to catch pelagic fish, and semi-pelagic fish, often causing serious damage to the sea bottom, and coral reefs. Longline fishing can run many miles in length with more than 2,500 hand-baited hooks on a single series; this method of fishing is used to catch tuna, swordfish, and cod. However, using longline fishing is prone to killing seabirds, and sea turtles.
      Trapping is a frame with thick wire in the shape of a heart, placed in the water to catch...