Water
Source: Declining Fish Stock Video
In the video, the water resource problem is that large fish such as tuna, Marlin and Salmon are becoming rare in the ocean due to all the fishing fleets such as commercial fisherman Pete Dupuis. According to the video, overfishing is more destructed to the ocean than toxic pollution or degrading water quality.
A sustainment plan that would well benefit both sides of the issue would be to limit the amount of fish to be caught in a single day. If fish would be limited, it would benefit the rare fish supply in the ocean because fishermen would only be able to catch a certain amount instead of catching all that they wanted to catch. Making the fish limited would also benefit the fishermen because they still could catch fish and make money. It would also leave some big fish out there for other fishermen to catch. The benefit would help the ocean overcome the dramatic fish loss that it is receiving from commercial fishermen.
The plan would be viewed by the environmentalist on how the plan would increase the amount of fish left in the ocean to control all the life of the ocean such as seaweed and algae. A negative though about the plan would be, “how could the amount of fish being brought to shore be controlled”? The coast guard could enforce the plan by randomly checking fisherman boats. Under the Magnuson Fisheries Conservation and Management Act, U.S. Coast Guard crews may board domestic and foreign vessels in U.S. coastal waters to enforce fisheries laws. Violators can be fined, and their gear and catch seized. The Coast Guard checks on sizes of fish and lobsters caught, gear and net-mesh size, use of turtle excluder devices on shrimp nets, and other activities. (Gradwohl, 1995) For the fisherman, they would still be able to fish and make money but would not be able to make as much without the large amounts of fish being brought in due to the limit on the fish.
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