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Environmental impact of overfishing[edit]
Overview[edit]
Fishing and pollution from fishing are the largest contributors to the decline in ocean health and water quality.[1] Ghost nest, or nets abandoned in the ocean, are made or plastic and nylon and do not decompose, wrecking extreme havoc on the wildlife and ecosystems they interrupt.[2] The ocean takes up 70% of the earth, so overfishing and hurting the marine environment affects everyone and everything on this planet.[3] On top of the overfishing, there is a seafood shortage resulting for the mass amounts of seafood waste, not to mention the micro plastics that are polluting the seafood consumed by the public.[4]
Pollution Impact[edit]
Overfishing and fishing pollution is killing our oceans. Overfishing causes stress on the coral reefs, causing them to reduce resilience in their growth and even contribute to their downfall altogether.[5] Deserted fishing gear counts for about 10% of all ocean pollution world wide. Ghost fishing, or discarded fishing gear irresponsibly abandoned in the ocean, is the deadliest form of marine pollution because it catches and submits wildlife through a cruel and slow death without anyone controlling or operating it.[6]
Food Chain[edit]
Even though plastic will outweigh the fish in the ocean by the year 2050, all populations of wild caught fish will experience collapse by the year 2050 due to overfishing and abuse of the environment. Food chains are being destroyed on top of the environmental harm: approximately 100 million sharks loose their lives each year due to overfishing and finning, killing sharks for the sole purpose of their highly valued fins.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ "Overfishing". World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
- ^ "Ghost Nets: Why They Endanger Marine Life". Plastic Soup Foundation. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
- ^ "Causes, Effects and Solutions to Overfishing (Depletion of Fish Stocks) - Conserve Energy Future". www.conserve-energy-future.com. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
- ^ "We're Running Out of Seafood, Yet We Waste Billions of Pounds of It". Sierra Club. 2021-01-20. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
- ^ Zaneveld, Jesse R.; Burkepile, Deron E.; Shantz, Andrew A.; Pritchard, Catharine E.; McMinds, Ryan; Payet, Jérôme P.; Welsh, Rory; Correa, Adrienne M. S.; Lemoine, Nathan P.; Rosales, Stephanie; Fuchs, Corinne (2016-06-07). "Overfishing and nutrient pollution interact with temperature to disrupt coral reefs down to microbial scales". Nature Communications. 7 (1): 11833. doi:10.1038/ncomms11833. ISSN 2041-1723.
- ^ "Ghost fishing gear". World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 2021-10-22.
- ^ "Overfishing is Worse than Plastic Pollution". Point Source. 2019-04-22. Retrieved 2021-10-22.