West Coast Fisheries
1. Paragraph 1: What types of fish does your fishery provide and what are the major challenges facing your fishery today? (K: 5 marks)
As a Canadian Government representative, in the west coast, offers diverse sorts of fish however faces numerous encounters. Variety of fish consist of salmon, which have many forms as chum, spring, pink, sockeye, and coho. Salmon significantly contributes to the Canadian economy while it upturns trades and creates abundance amounts of employments. In addition, over some time there has 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, resulting in untargeted fish capture by catch, and damage to the seafloor and its resident plants and animals. Global warming is also having a corrupt influence on the salmon offspring’s. Salmons favour temperatures below 7°C, as the seawater is begging to get warmer fishes are slowly going northward. Thus, this impacts Canada’s salmon productions and entirely the West Coast fisheries. For some time there has been a quarrel between Canada and the United States of who gets what, and in how much. If these two countries do not come to a settlement, in which issues are not properly set, valuable resources will be destroyed for upcoming generations.
2. Paragraph 2: From your perspective, what should be done to protect the fisheries from the challenges you mentioned in your first paragraph? Discuss in particular, how your proposed solutions will ensure sustainable yield management. (T: 5 marks)
Regardless of the amount of encounters West Coast Fisheries
As a Canadian Government representative, in the west coast, offers diverse sorts of fish however faces numerous encounters. Variety of fish consist of salmon, which have many forms as chum, spring, pink, sockeye, and coho. Salmon significantly contributes to the Canadian economy while it upturns trades and creates abundance amounts of employments. In addition, over some time there has 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, resulting in untargeted fish capture by catch, and damage to the seafloor and its resident plants and animals. Global warming is also having a corrupt influence on the salmon offspring’s. Salmons favour temperatures below 7°C, as the seawater is begging to get warmer fishes are slowly going northward. Thus, this impacts Canada’s salmon productions and entirely the West Coast fisheries. For some time there has been a quarrel between Canada and the United States of who gets what, and in how much. If these two countries do not come to a settlement, in which issues are not properly set, valuable resources will be destroyed for upcoming generations.
2. Paragraph 2: From your perspective, what should be done to protect the fisheries from the challenges you mentioned in your first paragraph? Discuss in particular, how your proposed solutions will ensure sustainable yield management. (T: 5 marks)
Regardless of the amount of encounters West Coast Fisheries