Commercial Fishing And Overfishing Essay

Commercial fishing and overfishing is a big problem to the aquatic animals in the world. In 1968 a cod (type of fish) catching industry got a highly industrialized fishing vessel, and was able to catch from about 500,000 to 800,000 tons of codfish in Labrador and the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. In the 10 years to follow the cod population decreased to the point that, the amount of spawning cod out of Newfoundland in 1977 was a 94 percent drop from the amount in 1962. Another type of fish population to decline due to overfishing is the American shad. In Georges Bank on 1850 the halibut fish species almost went extinct due to overfishing and commercial fishing they still just kept on fishing.The fishing got so bad that the United States had to pass the Magnuson Act which
In 1994 governments attempted to bring up the failing fisheries when worldwide the fisheries spent $124 billion to catch the fish but, got $70 billion out of it so the governments covered up the shortfalls. Coral reefs are on the verge of collapse because of overfishing. Also the coral reefs have decreased from about 28 percent to 13.8 percent. About 19,300 square miles of coral reef has been lost due to overfishing. See humans and animals are being affected by commercial fishing and overfishing.Humans could find another food source other than fish and for the government to pass a law that commercial fishing should be changed the way it is done. Doing this will solve the problem by leaving the fish alone so they can repopulate and the fish population will be restored. By the government passing the law then, commercial fishers will have to choose a less damaging way to catch fish. They could use rods instead of a huge net so you will be able to quickly decide what you want to do with the fish instead of killing fish by bycatching. So to find another food source the government could tell people to hunt more common deer and