Water Resource Issues

Running Head : DECLINING FISH STOCKS IN OCEANS : A MITIGATION

Declining Fish Stocks in Oceans

A Mitigation Plan

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Declining Fish Stocks in Oceans : A Mitigation Plan

of the Problem

There is an inherent ocean fish stocks decline causing sustainability to be at risk . Specifically , there have been a notable decrease in Atlantic cod stock off Newfoundland in 1992 and the poor state of the southern bluefin tuna stocks in the Southern ocean (Williams , 2005 This problem on declining fish stocks is a predicament that goes

mainly with a growing human population together with many other factors . If the trend continues , where the population constantly grows and the oceans ' size remain the same , the fish population and fish supply can be means that in the long-run , not only the fish risks of being extinct and depleted but humans as well when there would be lesser food to it

Living and Non-Living Organisms Causing the Problem

The decline in the fish supply or stocks of fish in the ocean , or in any other bodies of water are brought about by many factors . These factors however , can be both independent or dependent of each other . This means that one factor might lead to another factor and so on . However , as previously mentioned , the first cause is the growing human population Aside from food consumption in the form of fishing , other ocean activities that are not directly related to fish consumption are nowadays possible and actually ongoing due to growing human existence These are the activities that disturbs and /or destroys fish habitats in the ocean as well as damaging the ocean itself preventing fishes to multiply or reproduce normally

Following are the factors , both direct and indirect , both dependent and independent that cause a decline in fish stocks in the ocean

the growing population with growing demand on food consumption

a greater demand for transferring from traditional small-scale fishing to commercialized large ocean vessel fishing

a growing move from coastal waters fishing into fishing from international bodies of water

lack of time for various fish species to hatch and breed due to continuous catching /fishing

growing human activities both from other bodies of water and in the oceans itself where toxics and pollutants are involved and disturbance of the habitat of the fish in the ocean are caused by these human activities such as ocean floor exploration , oil rigging , etc

Other natural factors such as natural predator-prey process , where the fishes are preys to other ocean organisms coupled by natural calamities and natural causes that result to fishes ' deaths such as global warming etc

Living and Non-Living Organisms Affected by the Problem

The reason why humans must be concerned about the declining fish stocks in the ocean is due to the fact that humanity is also at stake when sustainability in fish supplies cannot be attained . The most obvious of these reasons is on food supply . However , the problem does not stop there when and if ever fish...