Stop Harmful Fishing
- Why?
- Marine and Coastal Environment is a very diverse ecosystem. About 700,000 to a million species live in oceans. Some scientists also predict that between one thirds to two thirds of undiscovered species resides in marine environment.
- Harmful fishing has the possibility of leading many marine species to extinction. Harmful fishing include methods of fishing such as blast fishing and drag fishing. These methods catch a large number of organisms as well as harm the local marine infrastructure. By continuing in these ways of fishing, it might potentially effect the food cycle that will cause the system to forcibly change further damaging the ecology of the marine life.
- What Methods Are Included In Harmful Fishing?
- Blast Fishing
- Drag Fishing
- Ghost Fishing
- Overfishing
- Catching small or pregnant organisms
- Catching Endangered species
- How to Solve?
- Ban Blast Fishing (Prohibition for fishing with explosives)
- Net with various sizes ➔ Catch fishes with different sizes
- If we just allow catching larger fishes, the large size fishes will disappear and its genes will fade. So, we should catch adult fishes with various sizes
- Fish Finder
- Collect deserted net or hooks
- Fish Farms(aquaculture)
- Special permits for fishermen
- Ban fishing during mating season
- Limit on the number of organisms that can be caught/limit on the weight
- Ban catching endangered species
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