Over Fish Research Paper

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Because the population in the USA is rising, so is the demand for seafood and amount commercial fishing. Almost half of marine life has been killed since 1970 because of commercial fishing and climate change together. This is any issue that has been going on for quite a while. It is a problem for many people in the US and for people in other countries all over the world as well. In 1996 the legislature passed an act called the Fisheries Conservation Act. Unfortunately this act did not work and the marine species population continued to go down at a fast rate One of the many causes of this marine life problem is the demand for fish and other types of seafood in the US. As I stated before, as the population rises, so does the demand for fish. This causes the commercial fishing industry to grow. This is bad for marine life because commercial fishing is one of the main causes of overfishing. Overfishing is when too much of a species are killed at one time. This leads to the endangerment or possibly the …show more content…
One of them is the sea animals themselves. Because the commercial industry is so reckless about what they are doing to the environment and homes of the animal around them, many sea creatures lose their homes and many nurseries are destroyed, killing of the next generation of that species. In addition to this, overfishing is causing many species to become endangered. Take Georges Bank, for example. It was best known for its abundant supply of fish and was even bigger than New Jersey! Because of this many fishermen caught hundreds of fish at a time over and over until eventually the bank was overfished and no longer had the large amount of fish that it did before. Another party that is affected by this problem is… us. The more we eat fish and other types of seafood now, the less we will have in the future. Also, at the rate that we are eating fish, many species of sea creatures will be extinct and we will be with NONE