Friday, September 16, 2011

Deep-Sea Fish Trouble

http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2011/09/07/deepsea_fish_in_deep_trouble.html.
A team of marine biologists are trying to stop commercial deep-sea fishing because its our biggest ecosystem. There trying to move fishing into more productive waters nearer to the consumers. Fish life is more sparse in the deep waters and we are trying to keep it from rare fish from being caught and killed and trying to keep them from extinction. Species such as the Blue-fin tuna and sardines are facing extinction. Fishing in the deep sea is not healthy for the ecosystem because the fish cannot repopulate after being overfished. The deep sea only gives the world 1% of all the seafood, and once we run out of deep sea fish there is no more and slowly the oceans ecosystem is going to fail.

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