In this moment in time, sustainable fishing is a option. One of which happens to be very unlikely to happen. Or though there are people in the world that would be open to cutting down on the amount of fish they eat or catch, there are still many people who do not choose to and don't think more seriously about how serious this problem is and how they are a part of this issue. There are many people who eat fish regularly or go fishing regularly and don't think much of it. Where as if people did cut down on the amount of fish they catch or eat it would give time for the reproducing of more fish. With the amount of fish getting caught purposely and from by catch is to much, this is not giving the fish enough time to reproduce. If this continues Species of fish will die and go extinct damaging the food chain. The extinct fish's food source would over populate and will eat all of their food causing more and more extinction as time goes on.
Unfortunately as bycatch just one boat caught 45 dolphins while fishing for tunas, the amount of tuna that was caught was 8. It can not be guaranteed by even the workers of the dolphin safe fisheries that label is true. They bring Observers on boat to make sure dolphins are not caught by by catch but the observers can and have been be bribed to stay quiet. There have been 100,000 dolphins caught yearly because of fishing practise. Longlining and purse seining are used for fishing. It allows the fishers to catch 100s of fish at a time, many sea life are getting caught and thrown back into the ocean as a result of by catch.
Over fishing and by catch are two server issues that have been going on for awhile. By catch is when dolphins or other sea life that fishermen or fisheries aren't wanting to catch happen to get caught, killed and discarded back into the ocean. Over fishing is what was mentioned earlier, a species of fish that fishermen have taken to frequently and consistently that the species doesn't have enough time to reproduce. 11,000 - 30,000 sharks are killed per hour. Shockingly over half of which is by catch and discarded as waste and put back into the ocean. At least 50,000 sharks are killed per year lying along side many other marine life that was unfortunately caught as bycatch.
The nets, fishermen use to catch fish have been found all over the ocean. It has trapped sea life and have caused then to die.
Hi Addyson,
ReplyDeleteI like how you put on a lot of information about commercial fishing and bycatch. However, next time, could you please proof-read and double check you post next time. Look out for your commas, make sure you put commas in place where they should be. As well as your spelling, there are a couple typos in your post which could be fixed next time. Overall, I think you really did an amazing job in this. Keep up the good work =)
Hi there Addyson,
ReplyDeleteWhat excellent work you have done about sustainable fishing. You're writing is well structured and you're answers are really detailed and have a lot of interesting information and facts. Not only did you give information but also included some photos of what by catching might look like. Overall you have done an awesome job and I enjoyed the post. Keep up the amazing work.
Hello Addyson
ReplyDeleteYou've written an amazing blogpost. It's understandable, clear and it had a lot of information. Maybe you could've added more photos and a video.