History of not

Overfishing
HH

ave you ever wonder how

Fish is caught? If you do, do you know the

history behind it? Not going to lie, yeah it
sounds boring reading an article of the
history of fish and why people eat them but
don't you ever think about the marine life
and the affects towards that one fish in
your table. The most interesting part about
this is that just eating one fish or selling
them, maybe buying them shows youre
already killing around 5,000 pounds of fish.
You see, the problem about this is the fact
that we are overfishing. Yes, overfishing
and for the person reading this that dont
know whats that, its basically we are
catching fish more than we are supposed
to. The reason towards that is that we are
letting the fish produce as daily as they
need to.
Im going to take it back a bit to the
11th century. Many people provide on fish
especially islanders. Since they would
catch 500 pounds each week, when they
started to realize that not enough fish were
out in the fish they would capture whales,
sharks or any other marine life. The
reason on how they knew that there wasnt
enough fish its because a lot of boats were
going to go out to capture fish , almost
1,2000 boats were out there. Now theres
only 580 boats who go out to capture fish.
Many may think its good because theres

less boats but if you think of it a bit more,

~2 ~ 1
Figure They would use big boxes that would be
made out of wood and fill them up with fish
(Facts and Details 2013)
you start to realize its actually bad Dont get me wrong theres many

because it shows theres not that much fish viewpoint, some are bad and others are

in the fish. Theres many places where they good. For example, one good viewpoint is

overfish. For example United States, New that fish is health for your body. The oil that

Zealand, Florida, and Iceland. Thats just the fish creates helps us for our

cholesterol, heart, skin, brain and many

other body parts. The fish oil can help

someone who has cholesterol or even high

blood pressure. So thats a good reason to

eat fish. But theres a bad side as well. The

other viewpoint is of course overfishing.

Figure 2 when they didn't have a lot of fish, they
would hunt whales (worldpress 2016)

some couple of states.

View Points
."This is catastrophic. We are destroying vital food
sources, and the ecology of our oceans."
( Louis Heaps-2015)

Whats bad about that is were catching so

many type of fish that we dont realize how

many are left. Many of us dont even listen

to the law or dont want to follow them for

the obsession of catching fish. Were

making a lot of fish to extinct, since we are

~3~
catching every week we are not letting fish every week, or catch a lot. We depend on

to mate and produce. For example wild fish and so does the marine life. If we dont

eels, salmon, sardines, orange stop overfishing we might not have enough

roughy and many other fish and animals wont either. For example

more. bears depend on fish as well seals, birds,

etc..

My Stance
One main thing thats worrying me

has to be, were killing our environment.

The thing is were not looking out for our

world and many dont respect the law. The

law is there for a reason. Constantly were

catching fish to the point where we are

catching them while some females are

pregnant. I dont think fish should be catch

~4~
 References Lindsay, J. (2011, 08 Jan). Has overfishing

Harvey, F. (2015, 17 Sep). Tuna and ended? top US scientist says yes.

mackerel populations suffer Cape Cod Times Retrieved

catastrophic 74% decline.. The from http://sks.sirs.com

Guardian Retrieved from

Rand, M. (2013, 25 Mar). A better way to
http://sks.sirs.com
prevent overfishing.
Harvey, C. (2016, 19 Jan). Why we've been
Christian Science Monitor Retrieved
hugely underestimating the
from http://sks.sirs.com
overfishing of the oceans.

Washington Post - Blogs Retrieved

from http://sks.sirs.com

~5~