“Empty Oceans, Empty Nets”, a film we saw in class on Monday, about Why our oceans are getting empty and what’s the big deal if they are.Overfishing and fishing faster than the fishes can grow and reproduce is a biggest threat to our oceanic biodiversity. Today, more than a half of our planet’s major oceanic fishing areas are now fished at or further than its capacity.This problem has grown to such extent that the populations of some fished species, such as haddock, and blue fin tuna, are destroyed. For human populations, fishing has long been a way of life, a source of food and income. It is a way of living for some 200 million people worldwide. Just about
How could we stop this? There is only one way to change this is by stopping overfishing and by giving time to the fishes to populate the ocean again.
I totally agree. We also need to allow nations to fish their own national waters so as to preserve, or at the very least SLOW the rate at which we are trawling fish out of the ocean. The video talked about the native population being jilted out of their own fish because US and European fishing conglomerates were taking up all the room. If a native fisherman with a small boat is out fishing, it would be infinitely less damaging to the ecosystems because his ability to haul in x amount of fish would be considerably less.
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