caught faster than they can reproduce (Lee & Safina n.d.) has decimated marine ecosystems around the world. One of the leading contributors to overfishing is bottom trawling. This fishing technique uses weighted nets‚ which drag across the ocean floor‚ catching anything in its path. This is the most destructive method of fishing and is described by The Water Brothers‚ saying‚ “bottom trawling kills indiscriminately‚ ruining the bottom habitat and catching a high number of species unintentionally‚ known
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problem that occurs when fish are caught faster than they can reproduce. This is a problem that has been occurring for centuries and continues to be a problem today. Commercial fishing has driven many fish species to the brink of extinction. A scientific report done in 2003 estimates that industrial fishing “has reduced the number of large ocean fish to just 10-percent of their pre-industrial populations.” ("National Geographic"‚ 2014). Overfishing leads to a reduction of biological
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Imagine yourself surrounded by beautiful pink sand‚ clear blue waters stretching out as far as the eyes can see‚ one hand with a natural cut coconut filed with coconut water inside‚ music to your liking and the sun‚ perfect temperature as if it was set to treat you. According to citynetmagazine.com this country has 29 islands‚ 661 cays and over 2‚000 islets‚ providing an exotic playground to adventure-thirsty tourists. Today I plan to tell you why it is that the next vacation spot you pick will be
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Overfishing is a major problem that affects the ecosystem and it occurs when fishing activities reduce fish stocks below an acceptable level. Overfishing can occur in any body of water from a pond to an ocean. Overfishing is also a non-sustainable use of oceans. The populations of many commercial fish species are severely depleted because of overfishing. Overfishing originated after World War II‚ which lead to expanding markets‚ newer technologies‚ and increased accuracy in finding fish (The Nature
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Did you know that fishing dates back to around 40‚000 BC? Fishing has been around for a long time and has drastically changed over the years. In this speech I will tell you about the history of fishing‚ the history of the fishing rod and reel‚ and how fishing has changed over the years. The first way people fished was with a spear which was also called a harpoon. This kind of fishing is thousands of years old. The spear would have been made out of a stick that was sharpened or barbed. The fisherman
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sources of animal protein‚ smuggling‚ pollution‚ and over fishing On your paper: • Write give two reasons explaining why your idea is important? (use what you know now!) What do you plan to discover • Here we capture a few ideas/questions we have in mind as a plan to answer our question. In our example I could say – Where do the fishing communities around lake Victoria get their fish from? [we need to determine the sources of fish for the fishing communities around lake Victoria] …ideas/questions
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The Sustainability of Over Fishing Area A Hi‚ I’m Taylor and my sustainability project is on over fishing. Over fishing means “situations where one or more fish are reduced below their normal populations because of fishing activities”. This means that fish or fish’s population may be so over fished that it may not recover. So I am going to talk about ways we can still fish but in a more sustainable way. Area B Science‚ Math‚ and Technology can help my issue by leading up to it and possibly
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him survive and grow as a prideful man through the experiences he suffers through‚ without being destroyed. Santiago’s other main qualities stems from this theme’s resistance of defeat: his pride‚ humility‚ and humbleness. Manolin‚ a boy who stops fishing with Santiago because of his parents‚ offers sardines to Santiago as a pitiful gesture. Yet Santiago only accepts it after refusing it beforehand‚ which the author says “He was too simple to wonder when he had attained humility. But he knew he had
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only 10% of the big fish in the ocean are left (2003). Many fishermen disagree with this figure and say their fishing hauls have not been affected. Environmentalists say that if something is not done to halt the mass fishing industry many species will become extinct. Fishermen say that if their industry is halted in any way it will affect jobs and the communities that depend on the fishing industry. One way to help quell this growing problem faced by both sides is to develop a sustainability plan
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The ss Minnow was a little cruise ship manned by a small crew and several groups of passengers. It was caught in a tropical cyclone which blew it thousands of miles off course for several days. In the second day of the storm‚ the radio and all communication means were destroyed after the ship had sent out a distress call‚ expressing the fear that the ship would go down. Many days later‚ after the ship had been tossed through the South Pacific‚ the ship ran aground on an island which the Captain realised
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