Have you ever stopped and wondered about the sea’s biological system? That’s probably a no. Ever since humans been on the Earth, they have been taking advantage of the abundance of species living in the Ocean. With this, has come overfishing. Overfishing has drastically changed marine environments in many ways, species have gone extinct, and environments have depleted. If overfishing continues to occur our society won’t have the marine life that we are very dependent on.
Ever since the 11th century, overfishing has been a problem. Many fishermen have overused local and regional ecosystems, which led to destruction.This resulted in a major reduction of stocks in fish and marine mammals. After destroying one ecosystem, the fishermen would
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The oceans economy provided more than 2.7 million jobs and contributed more than $258 billion to the GDP of the United States in 2010. The ocean economy supports employment two and a half times larger than other natural resources industries. Approximately 5.4 million jobs in 2010 were directly and indirectly supported by the ocean with their total contribution estimated at $633 billion. More than a billion jobs around the world supported by ocean economies. It’s perceptible that the ocean’s economy is really important, however but due to overfishing, it is costing many people their jobs. An example of this is, in 1992 when the cod stocks in Newfoundland have depleted to the point where the fisheries had to close down. 40,000 people were put out of work due to the low stocks. At first, it was supposed to be a two- year closure to let the cod replenish. After those two years, there wasere even less cod. This shows the impacts of overfishing is there isn’t anything done about it. ffishermen aren’t willing to give up their jobs for long enough to allow this to happen. Even the threat of billions of dollars and thousands of jobs lost every year has done little to stop this damaging
Andy Dehart, Discovery Channel Shark Advisor, spoke about the North Carolina shark over fishing problem. The shark populations on the East Coast were extremely over-fished which lead to the over population of sting rays, a main food-stock for sharks. The stingrays in turn decimated the shellfish populations on the East Coast, leading to calm and shellfish shortages. This shows that sharks are necessary for every eco-system and their destruction affects us in more ways then we can imagine. Sharks are very at-risk for over-fishing because they take a long time to reach the stage where they can reproduce and in general only have a few pups when they give birth.
While it may be surprising, humans screw up a lot. The consequences of overfishing cod are vast and more impactful than one would think. Depleting one species of fish is a disaster not just for the fish but the world around. This is not only an environmental issue, but a social and cultural problem as well. Cod by Mark Kurlansky is an excellent telling of the story of Cod, and Kurlansky weaves together disciplines in a fantastic manner.
The Norwegian and Japanese positions and arguments to be permitted with the hunting of non-endangered species of whales as a cultural exemption should not be considered. According to the Whale and Dolphin Conservation, “the whaling industry is in decline and the demand for meat is falling” (WDC, n.d.). Given this statement, I would support the ban of whaling worldwide. In addition, it would be difficult and costly to monitor the whaling activity that is taking place in waters where whales frequent.
Even though we have words such as: “calm”, “gentle”, “rebirth” etc. that are associated with the sea; within recent years the sea and everything within it are changing. There has been an increase in the demand for fish, with such high demand the fish industry are utilizing extensive measures in order to meet said high demand.
Whaling is a business that many people believe belongs in the past. Although it is going on in more countries inside and outside the international whaling commission (IWC) than is generally recognised. Public debates have given the impression that we only find this activity in Japan, Iceland and Norway. Whaling is a senseless act that needs to be stopped. Once it came to light the number of whales being killed was putting the whale populations under threat, a ban was introduced.
The Board doesn't think enough ocean habitats are safe. They support this with “only 1 percent of marine habitats (are) strictly protected” (par.12). This last statistic allows the reader to realize just how much needs to
Sarah Freeman’s article in The Ethicalist explains the negative effects humans have on the ocean. These negative effects include plastic pollution, global warming, and worst of all, overfishing. Overfishing occurs when a fish species is wild caught faster than it can reproduce. This leads to fewer fish in the ocean, meaning less marine biodiversity (Freeman). After Freeman spends most of her article explaining how the oceans are suffering, she then starts talking about what can be done to prevent a baren sea.
Pollution, the media, and shark finning are three human-caused situations that have impacted the population of sharks in various ways, and these three actions will be focused on in this paper, to research how they are linked, and to what extent they are
For years there has been a debate on who is the top predator in the ocean. Of course the shark is an easy choice but recently in the last couple years the killer whale has emerged as a challenge towards the Great White. The Killer whale is a worthy opponent towards the great white do to its bigger size and better and smarter hunting techniques. As history has shown great whites as dominant and scary they have been to the ocean as the apex predator they have been known to be the killer whales prey. When killer whales have attacked sharks they have turned the sharks upside down.
In the 1970’s, Asian flying carp was brought over to the United States to filter waterways of unnecessary algae and bacteria. Since their introduction, these carp have spread across the country, and are currently wreaking havoc on the environment: outcompeting all native fish species due to their aggressiveness and adaptability. They have also been know to cause damages to property and fatally injure fishermen. This fish was originally imported for a good cause, to benefit the environment; the aftermath was unseen and unexpected. People often get involved in situations not pertaining to them because they believe they are able to resolve the issues, and the baleful impacts left behind from these conflicts are generally not deliberate.
The ocean, however, has major benefits: providing food, medicine, and the air we breathe. Oceans can bring much more to the table, if we would simply explore more of them. Space provides both medicinal and technological advancements, yet the ocean not only brings those about, but also has a plethora of more benefits including jobs. Oceans benefit the population in many ways, one of them being income.
About 71 percent of our planet Earth is covered by water, and the majority comes from the oceans (about 96.5 percent of all Earth’s water). It remains as the most expansive, diverse, and mysterious places on planet Earth. But it is being threatened by the pollution by people and nature itself. By polluting the habitat of marine organism will indirectly affect the ecosystem of the marine life. Marine life is dying and as the result the oceanic ecosystem is threatened.
Name: Khalid Albaiji Section: SC135 TOPIC: Global Warming GENERAL PURPOSE: To Persuade SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To persuade my audience to aware them about the harmful effects of Global Warming and encourage the audience to help make a difference to stop global warming.
1. If overfishing continues hundreds of thousands of fish farmers and medium scale fisheries, often very poor, that depend on aquaculture and fishing, will be out of work. According to the Food and Agriculture
As a species gets close to extinction it can be very hard to restore them back to sustainability. Even closing the fishing game for that species is not enough for a species to comeback from overfishing. Both recreational and commercial fishing have a huge impact on overfishing, by keeping under sized fish and other aquatic life. Not only do fish have to worry about fishermen but they also have to worry about each other, fish deplete their own population by feeding on one another. For example, Betta fish are known to eat fish of the same species but can live peacefully with fish of another species.