World Fish Environmental Issues

The environmental issues that World Fish face is overfishing. In this era, fish is one of the food most people will choose from and likes to eat because fish is rich in micronutrients and protein (Washington Department of Health, n.d.). Therefore fisherman will use many advance fishing method to try catch a mass amount of fish per catch to prevent lack of stock. As time passes, the fish will not be able to sustain their population and one day will come to the extent that there are no more fish to be caught. It will also affect the food chain of marine life. The second or third consumers like shark and other carnivore will lost their food and might mess up the entire eco food chain. It will bring a huge impact to marine ecosystem as the ecosystem

Many fisherman nowadays lack in the knowledge for fish-farming and cause the number of fishes to decline. Some fish farm also do not have perfect facilities to take care those fishes. Many fisheries management bodies are also unable to follow scientific advice. They do not follow scientific advice on fish quotas and set catch limits above the suggested maximum amount (World Wide Fund for Nature, n.d.). Other than that, there are too few no-go areas for fishing Protected area and no-go zone, where fishing is restricted or entirely regulated, can give essential safe place where young fishes and developing fishes to mature and reproduce before they are eaten. However, only 1.2 per cent of the world’s ocean have been declared as Marine Protected Area (MPAs), and 90 per cent of existing MPAs are open for fishing (World Wide Fund for Nature, n.d.). The current lack of protection is particularly stressing for fish spawning in the ground and the ocean, both of which are especially defenceless against overfishing. World Fish also had done some project to solve these problem. For example, the project Resilience and adaptability of Fishing Community in Fiji, Ghana, Sri Lanka and Vietnam. This project was funded by Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and aims to build a body of research that can catch the human dimensions of the worldwide fisheries crisis (WorldFish Organization,

Water pollution is getting worse and worse nowadays. From plastic bag to harmful substance, things that we produce on land already reaches to the sea, either by deliberate dumpling or run-off through drains and river. For example, oil, toxic and rubbish. Oil that spill into the ocean will poison the organism in the marine. It will also cause the animal to not be able breathe properly under the sea (West, 2017). Toxic materials such as chemical and pesticide that spill from industry to the ocean also will poison the marine species. Rubbish like plastic bag and Styrofoam that human throw to the sea also cause water pollution and harm the marine species. Some animals might accidentally eat the rubbish because they will thought that are their food. Many plastic bag have been found that blocking breathing system and stomach of many marine species. When those rubbish back to the shore, it will also pollute the beach (World Wide Fund for Nature, n.d.). Therefore, World Fish had a project The Coastal and Marine Resources Management in the Coral Triangle which was seek to build up monitoring, control and surveillance system for coral reef fish to shield them for overfishing and unlawful reef fishing (WorldFish Organization,