Persuasive Essay On Blue Fin Extinction

Fishing Blue Fin Tuna into Extinction Humans have feasted on fish for as long as history can trace. The waters in which these fish are caught seem to be an overly abundant healthy environment that can relied on until the end of time, but what happens when that assumption is proved wrong? The truth is that no matter how vast and abundant the resources of our oceans may seem, we can indeed tap out the resources that our forefathers have relied on for more than thousands of years. Blue fin tuna are some of the world’s most amazing fish that roam the massive oceans, yet in recent decades, commercial fishing of these wonderful fish have caused the species’ population to spiral down at an alarming rate. Due to a large lack of regulation and ignorance to comply with quotas being set we may see the day where the beautiful blue fin tuna have been completely wiped out of our oceans.
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However, in an article from Wildlifeextra.com we find that this assumption is way off track. This article states that with the numbers of blue fin tuna being caught in the Mediterranean Sea we could see an extinction of these streamlined predators as soon as 2012. This article gets this information from the World Wildlife Federation, who has the statistics to back it up. The article explains how the populations have experience an exponential decay in recent years due to a lack of reduction in annual catches. The article states, “Mediterranean blue fin tuna is collapsing as we speak and yet the fishery will kick off again tomorrow for business as usual. It is absurd and inexcusable to open a fishing season when stocks of the target species are collapsing.” As explained in past articles, we see that the solutions needed to save these blue fins are failing in policy meetings due to fiscal gains by greedy