What Overfishing is
International Disputes
Overfishing: A Marine life Massacre
By: Analisa Groble
In 1995 it was reported that almost 70 % of the worlds commercial fish population were endangered, threatened, or recovering from endangerment.
What Overfishing is
Overfishing is the act of catching fish faster than the species can repopulate, and replenish their population. it is a global crisis, but is too often overlooked. Why is overlooked? Because one of the main reasons people overfish is that fishing employs around 200 million people worldwide, and fish is the main staple of roughly a billion more people’ s diets. The government is afraid to take a stand on this issue in fear of the jobs at stake, not to mention the lives at stake. Human needs appear to trump the idea of an ethical way of fishing.
International Disputes
The U. S. is not the only offender when it comes to taking advantage of marine resources. Overfishing, is an international problem. Marine law states countries must only fish within their border, and many a time has a dispute between countries arise, some arguments called for navy ships to take actions. Now countries fish in search of larger quantities, one may even say that the