Detrimental Commercial Fishing
The single biggest source of plastic choking out the life in our oceans is made up of these things.
What are fishing nets and fishing gear?
Commercial fishing has numerous detrimental effects on the ocean, one of which is the capture of ________. This is defined as the accidental capture of nontargeted species by fishermen.
What is by catch?
This strategy involves moving aquaculture to the open ocean where water is pristine. This method of farming promotes better growth and makes fish less stressed and less vulnerable to disease.
What is open ocean farming?
This method is used to target only one fish at a time. You throw a projectile at the fish, then bring it in. This allows the fish supply to stay balanced by preventing overfishing.
What is spearfishing?
This is defined as the fishing activities in violation of the laws and regulations that the actions fall under. At both the regional and international level, this activity is one of the biggest causes for fishery exploitation and the destruction of the world's oceans.
What is illegal fishing.
The most destructive method of fishing used by companies and fisheries across the world. The scars and damage left by this takes centuries to recover, if recovery is even possible. For example, coral reefs that are thousands of years old can be swept up and killed in seconds by this.
What is trawling?
By far the most overfished species, this fish was declared critically endangered in 2006, having declined in population by 51% since 1970 as a result of the popularity boom in sushi.
What is the Atlantic bluefin tuna?
Over ____ % of the world's fish oil is used in feed for farmed salmon. This is one reason that fish farming has a reputation as being unsustainable.
What is 50?
This method utilizes projectile or barbs shot from a gun to catch larger fish like tuna and swordfish. It results in very little bycatch.
What is harpooning?
The opposite of wild caught. This method of producing fish can have drastic environmental impacts, from waste and chemical pollution to the overfishing of additional species for the sole use of nutrition.
What is farm raised?
This is a direct cause of bycatch, which is the capture of unwanted marine life while fishing for another animal. The recklessness and greediness of overfishing allows for many other animals to be wrongfully caught and killed during the process.
What is overfishing?
This international organization, known as the ______, was formed in 1998 by 48 sovereign nations as a direct result of the overfishing of Atlantic Bluefin Tuna. While struggling with enforcement, this organization contributed to the gradual recovery of the tuna populations.
What is the ICCAT (the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas)?
This is being fed to farmed fish and it could be giving them long term damage to their health and fish being fed this food produce more waste than wild fish, which leads to an increase in oceanic pollution and again raises contamination risks of other sea life species.
What is soy?
This method utilizes anchored fishing lines from a moving boat to hook fish individually. The technique inherently has minimal bycatch and overfishing is not a possibility. It is different from another method, trawling, which uses a large net rather than individual lines.
What is trolling?
This is the best way to combat overfishing and illegal fishing. It is something most regular individuals can do that will save the ocean's ecosystems, eliminate bycatch, and stop wasteful farming.
What is not eating fish?
This is one of the overall negative impacts that overfishing has on marine ecosystems. The other two are the size of the fish changing, and the rate of reproduction changing.
What is the speed at which they mature?
Prized for its world famous caviar, this fish species is one of many that are significantly impacted by fishing. Poachers and their gill nets especially, along with habitat loss and long reproduction cycles, comprise a majority of the threats that endanger this species.
What is the Beluga Sturgeon?
These types of fish can escape and contaminate other sea life which spreads disease to wild fish and marine life. These types of fish are also out-competing wild fish which is leading to a population decrease or healthy, natural fish.
What are farmed fish?
This technique is the most common way to fish. You can catch one fish at a time. It avoids overfishing.
What is cast and reel?
Other than the numerous environmental benefits, not eating fish would stop the consumption of these toxic chemicals.
What are mercury and PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls)?
The fishing industry is worth this amount of money. Billions of people rely on fish for their primary source of protein and millions of others work in the fishing industry and rely on it for their livelihood.
What is 362 billion dollars?
In addition to thousands of seabirds, 250 thousand sea turtles, and 300 thousand dolphins, 20 million of these species of shark are caught every single year as a result of targeted fishing for shark fins as well as by catch. As a result this species is considered as "near threatened".
What is the blue shark?
Some farmers are moving their farms out of the ocean and onto land, away from sensitive habitats. With these systems, farmers can filter and treat wastewater, and reduce their impact on the surrounding ecosystem. What is this method of fish farming called?
What is land-based fish farming?
This method is used to only target the fish you need. Using your hands, you release a line with multiple hooks into the water. You then bring it up after fish have hooked onto it.
What is hook and line?
One particular dish, popular in many countries including China, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia, along with a couple other factors have caused a decline in worldwide populations of this animal by 80-99%. Changing lifestyles could save not only this animal but countless other species dependent on it.
What are sharks?