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    Declining Fish Stock

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    A manageable and sustainable plan will need to be implemented to avert these fish from completely disappearing from the oceans. The plan will need to be a partnership between fishermen‚ communities‚ governments‚ and environmentalists. Overfishing has considerably exhausted certain species in the ocean and they are now extinct. To think we can continue to hunt fish‚ with no major regulations or limits to feed billions of people is extreme. Since biodiversity do continue to decline‚ the

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    Saving Lake Malawi

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    environmental destruction in order to preserve their Lake. One of the biggest problems facing Lake Malawi is high population. As the population growth rate increases‚ the demand of fish increases and the lake faces a serious problem of overfishing. The Malawi National Wildlife organization conducted a research into one of the fishing community along the lake and found that between 1910 and 1992 the population had increased. The town of Chembe‚ a fishing community along the lake‚ had a population

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    An investigation to find the water potential of potato and carrot tubers in a sucrose solution‚ of concentration 0.00 – 0.50Mol‚ over a 24 hour period Interpretation Written Communication C1 From our graph it can be seen that the concentration of sucrose solution is 0.18 M at 0% change in mass for the potato and 0.355 M at 0% change in mass for the carrot. I will use these values to find the solute potential by using the calibration graph. I will work out the water potential by using the

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    West Coast Fisheries

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    been a deterioration of the West Coast fisheries. (Clarke‚ Wallace & Earle‚ 2006) Some challenges that the West Coast fisheries face are changes in the environment with leads to global warming‚ overfishing‚ and lack of a salmon fishing treaty. Both Canadians as well as Americans put into practise overfishing at mistaken measures due to improvement in machinery and technology. Not only is the west coast subject to high levels of fishing pressure. Fishing practices‚ such as trawling for prawns‚ are permitted

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    Bluefin Tuna Effect

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    the marine food web‚ so it is at the top and feeds on smaller fish to balance the organisms. The process of photosynthesis between plants and sun is created the energy for humans. The environment becomes too worst if ocean has no Bluefin tuna ("Overfishing: A Global Concern"). NOAA states that the mission of NOAA is to predict the changes in the Earth’s environment‚ from the depths of the ocean to the surface of sun‚ and it understands how to conserve and manage the marine resources. Bluefin tuna

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    Apo Island

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    fish that populate them is breath-taking‚ a fact that is appreciated by the multitude of tourists who flock to the island each year to engage in snorkeling and scuba diving. Baring this in mind it is hard to believe that only thirty years ago overfishing‚ to accommodate an ever increasing population‚ and destructive fishing methods conducted by the native population nearly destroyed the fragile ecosystem that surrounds Apo Island. These reefs‚ and the marine life which populates them‚ only exist

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    Environment.

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    are a cause to pollution and also global warming. Fish is also in danger to become a scarce source. People are overfishing thus lessening the amount of fish in the sea. Sometimes‚ it’s also not a very good idea to grow fish in a fish farm. In Malta‚ fish farms are allocated to breed ‘Tuna.’ Somehow or another‚ this fish is not breeding well thus fish is being lost and lessened. Overfishing can lead to a poor rate of fishing and not to mention‚ if fishing becomes scarce‚ one might lose his job. Irrigation

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    Japanese culture. In this essay‚ I will be using the Pseudosciaena crocea also known as the Yellow Croaker as my example. Yellow croaker got their name from the noises that they make during spawning season. I will also be addressing the problem of overfishing and environmental consequences that rise. By analyzing the patterns of ecological transformations within fishing disputes between China and Japan‚ we can see

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    Canadian history and use of the Atlantic Cod Fishery In the 1990’s‚ the Canadian Atlantic Cod fishery suffered a collapse when the populations were extremely overexploited and caused a massive dip in the cod’s biomass. Presently‚ the populations have still not fully recovered and as a result‚ the cod fishery is very limited in terms of catch. Thinking back to the collapse‚ one may wonder what factors contributed to the drop in biomass and if people have changed their outlook on fisheries enough

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    References: Zeller‚ F. (2008). Overfishing spells disaster. Retrieved from http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0‚‚2-13-1443_2304032‚00.html National Coalition for Marine Conservation. (n.d.). THE THREATS TO OUR OCEAN FISHERIES: Overfishing‚ Bycatch and Marine Habitat Loss. Retrieved from http://www.savethefish.org/about_ocean_fisheries_overfishing.htm

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