Dear To whom it may concern,
The Science and English sophomore classes at Kearny SCT are broken up into groups to complete a research project. Each group was given an environmental topic that's believed to be affecting our social, economic and life balances. The topic that was given to my group was overfishing, my group and I believe that fish are becoming more of an everyday diet which is causing the fish population to decrease. Although my group and I have done a lot of research on overfishing we still have many unanswered questions.
We have learned that overfishing is effecting all of the world. All countries has some sort of over fishing problem. The number of fish population has dramatically dropped in the last 100 years. If this overfishing problem is still rising in the next 50 or so years, could we lose all of the fish? As we catch more and more, we fear that the oceans could be left empty. We know before overfishing began in the 1800s, fishermen fished for whales for the use of their blubber. Our ocean waters were filled with big and small fish of all kinds. As the need for fish increased the oceans population began to decrease leaving the rodents of the sea left behind. Year by year the ocean lost all kinds of fish, can you imagine an ocean without fish? After reading articles about the damages in our oceans my group and I found ourselves asking the question "How can we improve our sea’s life?"
As our research proceeds we find that about 66% of an everyday catch goes to waste, that's like throwing away more than half of a pizza.. This wasting of fish is destroying the ecosystem and destroying the balance in the ocean. Slowing down fishing has been a thought of ours as a solution to destroyed ocean ecosystems. We would like to know if it would be possible if we could slow down on catching fish or give some areas of the ocean a rest. We could let areas in the ocean be left alone so the fish population could replenish itself. If fishermen continue to fish at this rate the countries that depend on fish as a main food source will slowly start to decrease.
Lastly, my group and I came to realized that overfishing isn't only affecting the oceans but as well as our economic systems. Fish are one of the main trades of the world and if we don't allow the fish to repopulate by over-fishing then sooner or later there wouldn't be any fish to trade. We began to wonder if after a while our economy will begin to collapse and loss money more than we will gain some. If overfishing continues to be a problem then the whole world would face hunger.
After stating some of the information that we have collected on this topic we hope that you could help with more information that will better improve our understanding of overfishing. We believe that overfishing could come to a stop one day but we can't do it without help. Thank you for taking the time to read our concerns and our oceans sea life.
Sincerely,
Juan Gutierrez
Leshay Pichard
Donovan Valdez
Saliem Gebremicael
The Science and English sophomore classes at Kearny SCT are broken up into groups to complete a research project. Each group was given an environmental topic that's believed to be affecting our social, economic and life balances. The topic that was given to my group was overfishing, my group and I believe that fish are becoming more of an everyday diet which is causing the fish population to decrease. Although my group and I have done a lot of research on overfishing we still have many unanswered questions.
We have learned that overfishing is effecting all of the world. All countries has some sort of over fishing problem. The number of fish population has dramatically dropped in the last 100 years. If this overfishing problem is still rising in the next 50 or so years, could we lose all of the fish? As we catch more and more, we fear that the oceans could be left empty. We know before overfishing began in the 1800s, fishermen fished for whales for the use of their blubber. Our ocean waters were filled with big and small fish of all kinds. As the need for fish increased the oceans population began to decrease leaving the rodents of the sea left behind. Year by year the ocean lost all kinds of fish, can you imagine an ocean without fish? After reading articles about the damages in our oceans my group and I found ourselves asking the question "How can we improve our sea’s life?"
As our research proceeds we find that about 66% of an everyday catch goes to waste, that's like throwing away more than half of a pizza.. This wasting of fish is destroying the ecosystem and destroying the balance in the ocean. Slowing down fishing has been a thought of ours as a solution to destroyed ocean ecosystems. We would like to know if it would be possible if we could slow down on catching fish or give some areas of the ocean a rest. We could let areas in the ocean be left alone so the fish population could replenish itself. If fishermen continue to fish at this rate the countries that depend on fish as a main food source will slowly start to decrease.
Lastly, my group and I came to realized that overfishing isn't only affecting the oceans but as well as our economic systems. Fish are one of the main trades of the world and if we don't allow the fish to repopulate by over-fishing then sooner or later there wouldn't be any fish to trade. We began to wonder if after a while our economy will begin to collapse and loss money more than we will gain some. If overfishing continues to be a problem then the whole world would face hunger.
After stating some of the information that we have collected on this topic we hope that you could help with more information that will better improve our understanding of overfishing. We believe that overfishing could come to a stop one day but we can't do it without help. Thank you for taking the time to read our concerns and our oceans sea life.
Sincerely,
Juan Gutierrez
Leshay Pichard
Donovan Valdez
Saliem Gebremicael