A Global Disaster

 

Going out to eat with you family is one of the best ways to engage in a conversation with you kids. Eating seafood, burgers, salads are always a main course at any restaurant you go to. But what if you couldn’t enjoy seafood with your kids. Trying to explain the taste of a lobster or crab cakes to your kids is not the way to go. By 2048, when we are 50 years old “A total collapse of all world fisheries should hit around 2048”. This quote is by, David Biello, he is saying that if we continue to overfish reefs, seas, and migrating routes seafood could be gone forever. You might think that 2048 is far away but in reality you will only be 50 years old, if you decide to retire around this age you will not be able to enjoy and seafood on the menu.

 

Recent studies have shown that 38% of commercially caught fish have diapered and 7% have gone extinct. This is not just New England but other countries as well including Europe and France. Europe’s is one of the leading causes in overfishing, fishing 2-3 times higher then the U.S does. Also there is a 23 percent in species diversity and a fourfold increase in available catch.
 

This might sound good however in Ms. Lynn class she taught us in the food web it causes a reaction between all species by changing one food source. This can be indirect or direct. She taught us that every organism is connected one way or another so by killing off one species it affects multiple species. By the number of swordfish being only 8% then what it was ten years ago, this gives plankton an explosion in population. So now the number of plankton goes up the number of oysters increases to we catch more oysters and this is why overfishing hurts the entire world.

 

In my opinion I think we can return the numbers of commercially caught fish to normal if we decrease the amount of fish fisheries can catch. But we would need the world to engage in doing this because this is a world problem. When I first read this article I did not know that Europe was one of the leading causes in overfishing, but we are close behind them over fishing many reefs and natural habitats to these fish.
 
If you want you children and your children’s children to taste seafood we have too help save the aquatic ecosystems. I don’t want to never taste seafood again so we must join together and stop this world crisis.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=overfishing-could-take-se