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Tuesday, August 26, 2008

What is OverFishing?
Many people define Overfishing in various ways. However, everything link to just one simple point ; Too much fish are being caught and causes degradation to the system. Overfishing is known to be a non-sustainable use of the oceans,

Below are a few definitions in use by organisations and governments.

#1-The practice of commercial and non-commercial fishing which depletes a fishery by catching so many adult fish that not enough remain to breed and replenish the population. Overfishing exceeds the carrying capacity of a fishery.

#2-Catching too many fish; fished so much that the fish cannot sustain their population. The fish eventually get fewer and fewer, until finally there are none to catch.

#3-Fishing with a sufficiently high intensity to reduce the breeding stock levels to such an extent that they will no longer suppport a sufficient quantity of fish for sport or commercial harvest.


What is causing overfishing
All over the world, the fished that are caught are two to three times as large as needed to take for the present day which also include other marine species. On a global scale, we are able to cover at least four Earth-like planet with the fish capacity we have.



Many fishing methods are unstainable in their very own ways which have a large impact on our marine ecosystems. Many non-target species are being destroyed caused by the gears and fishing practices made by human which include Bycatch / discards and bottom trawling11.

On top of the overcapacity many fishing methods are unsustainable in their own way. These methods have a large impact on the basic functioning of our marine ecosystems. These unselective fishing practices and gear cause tremendous destruction on non target species. Bycatch / discards and bottom trawling destruction are two examples of this.

Sources :
· info - OverFishing
· image - Greenpeace

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