end of the line

tragedy of the commons

• the assumption that if a resource is for all or owned by noone, without regulation, it will be over-exploited 

• people think that the resource is endless

• lack of regulation

there is cheating the regulations, the restrictions, the boundaries

• not enough enforcement

• the fishermen need to enforce themselves

  • notched lobsters

very similar to what happened in the 1890s

• driven by technology

  • more boats, bigger boats, fish finders, huge nets, long lines, GPS

  • the fish will not win against us

• 90% of large fish decline

• 80% decline in large mammals in 1890s

• estimated collapse of 20-50 years

public trust doctrine

• we don’t have one for the seas

• we should tho!

  • look at the dept of commerce for this

ecological damage from trawling

• one health aspect

  • humans

    • get food

      • high quality food source

    • won’t have food in the future

    • job dependency

  • animals

    • killing animals

    • destroying their home

  • habitat

    • destroyed by trawling

shrimp

• farm raised

  • taken out mangrove swamps to raise shrimp

  • need to make fish meal for them

  • cheap

• wild caught

  • better choice

  • heavily regulated

  • expensive

• population may explode when the fish population collapses

chesapeake bay

• cow nose rays went crazy

• they killed all the sharks

Newfoundland

• lost cod

  • 40k jobs lost

• gained lobster

  • now being impacted by climate change

simplification of ecosystems

extinction cascade

• keep fishing new tuna species

• blue fin

  • gone, move on to the next tuna

    • gone, move to the next tuna

social justice (or lack thereof)

• senegal

  • developed nations taking fish

  • they love our fish by they don’t love us

illegal fishing

• european catch

  • half illegal

  • worth 25 billion

fishing subsidies

• government subsidizes fishing fleets

• feel as if we need fishing, we need to keep fishers around

• 15 billion dollars globally

blue fin tuna

• top predator

• extremely endangered

• bad trophic level to be feeding at

mediterranean explotation

• 10k tons is where it should be set

• 15k was MSY

• 29k is what the managers put it at

• 61k is what was harvested

  • a third of the total population

mitsubishi

• they are recognizing that this is a rare commodity with a high value

• they are buying tuna to freeze

• 60% of the worlds catch is controlled by them

exclusive economic zone

• we do what we can within our zone to benefit our country

  • fishing, oil, wind

magnuson act

• increase in fleet size, increase in boat size

• Goodbye cod!

  • we have moved onto pollok

alaska

• heavily regulated

• the coast guard is regulating

• make sure the russians aren’t in our water

• limit boat number

• short seasons

  • competitive 

fish farming

• algae and molluscs is great

• feeding fish meal? not good

  • you are feeding fish to other fish

marine stewardship council

• they believe that these fisheries are sustainable 

• “certified sustainably harvest”

• problem

  • they could be wrong, bought, undermined 

5 recommended actions

• regulations

• increase enforcement

• political will

• consumer action

  • eat lower on the food chain

• protected areas

marine protected areas

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