Overfishing: Fish and Academic Search Premier
Topic: Overfishing
Sources:
Fishonline- Fish to Avoid. Marin Conservation Society, n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. .
Over Fishing - A Global Disaster. N.p., 2007. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. .
Saeina, Carl, and Sarah Chasis. "Saving the Oceans." Science & Technology (2004). Academic Search Premier. Web. 23 May 2010.
Safina, Carl. "Fishing off the deep End --- and Back." Multinational Monitor 24.9 (2003): 8-10. Academic Search Premier. Web. 5 Apr. 2010.
Safina, Carl. "Where have all the fishes gone?" Issues in Science & Technology 10.3 (1994): 37. Academic Search Premier. Web. 25 Apr. 2010.
Velasquez-Manoff, Moises. "How overfishing can alter an ocean ecosystem." Christian Science Monitor 100.143 (2008): 14. Academic Search Premier. Web. 29 Mar. 2010.
Blackford, Mansel. "Fishers, Fishing, and Overfishing: American Experiences in Global Perspective, 1976–2006." Business History 83 (2009): 239-66. Academic Search Premier. Web. 25 Apr. 2010.
Thesis Statement: Overfishing needs to stop; it threatens the entire oceans ecosystem and could potentially be one of the biggest manmade disasters to have ever occurred.
Supporting Material:
1. Statistics: Seventeen percent are over exploited (Over Fishing - A Global Disaster)
2. Statistics: Seven percent of the world’s fish populations are depleted (Over Fishing - A Global Disaster).
3. Statistics: Just 4 percent of the world's oceans remain free from human impact (Velasquez-Manoff).
4. Summer flounder, yellowtail flounder, red snapper, and swordfish are all so severely depleted that current populations are historically the lowest they have ever been (Where have all the fishes gone?).
5. Narrative Example: In tropical coral reefs fishing has removed fish that eat starfish, starfish graze on coral. Without the fish that pray on starfish their population grow unchecked. The larger the populations of starfish the more coral they consume. Eighty percent of Caribbean reefs have disappeared in the past 30 years (Velasquez-Manoff).
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Sources:
Fishonline- Fish to Avoid. Marin Conservation Society, n.d. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. .
Over Fishing - A Global Disaster. N.p., 2007. Web. 29 Mar. 2010. .
Saeina, Carl, and Sarah Chasis. "Saving the Oceans." Science & Technology (2004). Academic Search Premier. Web. 23 May 2010.
Safina, Carl. "Fishing off the deep End --- and Back." Multinational Monitor 24.9 (2003): 8-10. Academic Search Premier. Web. 5 Apr. 2010.
Safina, Carl. "Where have all the fishes gone?" Issues in Science & Technology 10.3 (1994): 37. Academic Search Premier. Web. 25 Apr. 2010.
Velasquez-Manoff, Moises. "How overfishing can alter an ocean ecosystem." Christian Science Monitor 100.143 (2008): 14. Academic Search Premier. Web. 29 Mar. 2010.
Blackford, Mansel. "Fishers, Fishing, and Overfishing: American Experiences in Global Perspective, 1976–2006." Business History 83 (2009): 239-66. Academic Search Premier. Web. 25 Apr. 2010.
Thesis Statement: Overfishing needs to stop; it threatens the entire oceans ecosystem and could potentially be one of the biggest manmade disasters to have ever occurred.
Supporting Material:
1. Statistics: Seventeen percent are over exploited (Over Fishing - A Global Disaster)
2. Statistics: Seven percent of the world’s fish populations are depleted (Over Fishing - A Global Disaster).
3. Statistics: Just 4 percent of the world's oceans remain free from human impact (Velasquez-Manoff).
4. Summer flounder, yellowtail flounder, red snapper, and swordfish are all so severely depleted that current populations are historically the lowest they have ever been (Where have all the fishes gone?).
5. Narrative Example: In tropical coral reefs fishing has removed fish that eat starfish, starfish graze on coral. Without the fish that pray on starfish their population grow unchecked. The larger the populations of starfish the more coral they consume. Eighty percent of Caribbean reefs have disappeared in the past 30 years (Velasquez-Manoff).
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