Why do modern commercial fishing methods lead to damages to the environment and loss of organisms? Explain your answer!
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Explanation:
Modern commercial fishing methods decrease fish numbers rapidly, leaving little fish left behind to reproduce, be prey, and just survive. Examples of overfishing include the infamous Shark Fin Soup and net fishing.
In fishing for sharks, people catch 11,417 sharks per hour . They cut off their fins, and drop the sometimes still live carcass back into the water. Sharks must be constantly moving and swimming to stay alive, and the shark can't swim without it's fins, so it sinks and slowly suffocates in the same waters that used to be it's home.
In net fishing, a giant net is cast into the water, meant to catch mostly small fish. The nets want to catch herring, anchovies and menhaden, and other small, schooling baitfish like capelin, smelts, sand lance, halfbeaks, pollock, butterfish and juvenile rockfish. But bigger predators feed on these smaller prey, and they might be swimming in the fish's midst. So when the net comes down to capture the fish, it might capture seals, dolphins, sharks, or sea turtles instead.
The environment is harmed because fishing gear can damage the coral and infect the waters. Nets and traps set too close or in coral reefs damage the coral, which take a long time to recover.
