Humans have used aggressive fishing methods for years, with the major increase of resource overexploitation, coral reefs have been destroyed beyond repair. Overfishing affects the reef’s ecological balance and biodiversity. It has created a rapid decline in populations along various coral reefs as well as the degradation of coral ecosystems. Overfishing does not just affect one species, it has a domino effect. The variety of species in the coral reef all relies on one another and as soon as one species is destroyed, another one is left without an important source of survival. Overfishing can destroy a marine ecology by defecating nutrients or minerals that are required by the living-organisms in that specific area and upsetting the marine’s
