Attention Getter (can include reveal topic): “Shrimp is the fruit of the Sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sauté it.” This was a quote from the movie Forest Gump. Shrimp is the most popular seafood that people eat due to the soft and chewy texture that taste like chicken, but better. As a result, increased demands on shrimps have become quite problematic, Proposition (overall argument): and I believe that we should practice a sustainable way of eating shrimps. Relevance: Even if you don’t like shrimp or seafood in general, we should still practice the ways of being sustainable since the ocean is a valuable resource for all of us. In fact, ocean controls temperature, gives us oxygen, and provide a faster transportation system by boats. …show more content…
According to WWF (World Wildlife Fund), “farmed shrimp accounts for 55 percent of the shrimp produced globally.” They’re mostly farmed in developing countries such as Thailand, Vietnam, Brazil, etc. Problem I. Shrimp farming harms our environment. a. Although farming of shrimps has made shrimp more accessible to shrimp loving publics such as U.S, Europe, and Japan, shrimp farming method has caused some major damages to the environment. b. Pollution 1. As shrimp farming increases, excessive amounts of organic waste, chemicals and antibiotics are produced. These pollutions can affect groundwater or coastal estuaries. 2. Due to pollutions, 5 to 10 percent of mangrove habitats are lost globally as well. (WWF) c. Disease 1. Other than pollutions, diseases are also problematic since monocultures are very susceptible to diseases. Outbreaks of disease in shrimp can cause the whole shrimp population in one area to become ill resulting in shutting down of the farm. Not only that, ill shrimps will rise up to the surface and be eaten by the seagulls, spreading the pathogen to other nearby shrimp farms as well. II. Human trafficking and corruption in the industry still
Nitrogen and nitrates relate to Hypoxia via the process of eutrophication. Since Nitrogen is a limiting nutrient in most waters, the added input of nitrate causes massive growth in algae. The algae rapidly consume all available N, and once the nutrient is limited again, the alga dies en masse. As the alga decomposes, oxygen is depleted in the water. This lowers dangerously lowers the level of dissolved oxygen in the water, which harms living organisms in the area. Small organisms and organisms that are immobile or unable to escape low-oxygen areas are particularly vulnerable. Hypoxia and resulting “dead zones” are harmful to local fishing and shrimping industries and algal blooms hurt the tourism industry. Hypoxia has lead to a decrease of about 25% in the brown shrimp habitat, forcing shrimping operations further offshore. As the hypoxia issue continues to grow, negative human effects will only increase. Since nitrate runoff from ag. has been proven to be the dominant source of hypoxia, policies could be enacted to effectively deal with “point-source” pollution. This makes enacting environmental policy more easily adapted, possibly included in past policy such as the Clean Water Act.
Television commercials, print ads, and billboards in the Washington, DC, area are asking residents to connect two things many might find unrelated: lawn care and seafood. In one commercial, a man stuffs a big plateful of grass in his mouth after a voice-over says, “Spring rains carry excess lawn fertilizers through our sewers and rivers and into the Chesapeake Bay, where the blue crab harvest has been extremely low. So skip the fertilizer until fall, because once they’re gone, what’s left to enjoy?”(Environment, p. 7)
As the pistol shrimp uses its powerful snapping craw as a weapon to hunt, it makes such a noise that it can even alter the sound transmissions of submarines. (BBCWorldwide, 2009) In the video clip “Pistol shrimp sonic weapon” it shows how this snapping shrimp uses its sonic weapon, which is a large claw that snaps to releasing bubbles. (BBCWorldwide, 2009) These bubbles are shot at the shrimp’s prey at such temperature that when their released they can reach the sun’s temperature for a instant. (BBCWorldwide, 2009) Although this pistol shrimp has a astonishing feature, its important to analysis the way this snapping shrimp uses its claw to create a load snap noise through cavitation bubbles and the fundamentals behind its claw regrowth from
Use of pesticides & other fertilizers infuse nitrogen oxide into the water bodies acidifying the water which kills the plants and aquatic animals living in
The central idea of the paragraph entitled “Restaurants in hot water with PETA for serving still-moving octopus, shrimp”, written by Los Angeles Times, is that live slaughter of seafood is not right and that this item should be taken off the table. Firstly, the author of the Newsela article states that, “The group hopes consumers will pressure legislators to ban the practice. But the organization hinted it may not stop there. "We're taking no other options off the table until live animals themselves are taken off the table," said spokesman Ben Williamson.” This is explaining that they are trying really hard to get live seafood off the menu, but they will have a hard time succeeding. All they are doing is trying to stop this slaughter, because
Al Dhaheri, S. and C. Drew. 2003. Guide for the Management of the Brine Shrimp (Artemia Franciscana) at Al Wathba Wetland Reserve. Terrestrial Environment Research Centre, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Since nearly the beginning of human history fishing has been an integral part of the culture and survival of coastal communities. These coastal communities and cities have always been some of the most prosperous and successful because of the added resource of the ocean. In the beginning many areas were so densely populated with fish and shellfish that often a day’s worth of food could be caught by simply wading into the shallows. For example, some of the first English settlers to see the Chesapeake Bay described “The abundance of oysters is incredible. There are whole banks of them so that the ships must avoid them. . . . They surpass those in England by far in size, indeed, they are four times as large. I often cut them in two, before I could put them into my mouth” (Miller). This abundance had every appearance of being as infinite as the ocean that produced it but the reality was far different. Many fish stocks, including the oyster, stayed near these high levels even into the beginning of the industrial era. However the new rapid pace of technological advancement proved too much for many stocks to handle. Close shore stocks took most damage as they were the easiest to exploit. Those same oyster colonies that were once an obstacle for boats were nearly eradicated by “the 1890s harvests began to decline. Many oyster beds were destroyed and reefs had been mined away. By the 1920s, the boom was over…” (Miller). While catastrophes like this inspired many sustainable practices there are still fisheries worldwide that are headed for a similar end. Through ignorance and misinformation from the fishing industry most of the general public does not know that this is occurring. The following will serve to inform about the t...
People always try to convince me that their favorite show is in someway a show I should be watching. I do usually give their shows a gander, and with an open mind I sit and stare at the screen constantly comparing it to my all time favorite show: Firefly. Sure over the years I have sat back and watched many television shows that have excited my imagination and given Firefly a run for its money. Shows such as Lost, or Doctor Who, or Sherlock have left quite an impression on me, but none like the Joss Whedon masterpiece. In my opinion Firefly trumps all other TV shows.
Therefore their society relies heavily on the ocean as a main food source. In any industry the supply will meet the demand as long as there's a profit to be made, and this is reflected in the overfishing in Japan. Unfortunately, overfishing
One may think that they automatically know that sharks are cruel and conniving, but do they really know? One can easily just say that sharks are a menace of the sea, but do they truly know that as a fact? I am here to support the fact that sharks are not as dangerous as citizens say they are. If humans actually gave them a chance, they would be less cautious of us, and we would be less cautious of them.
... (The Issues: Factory Farming, n.d.). Nutrients and bacteria from that waste can also contaminate waterways, disturbing the aquatic ecosystems.
We need to he eating healthier and this will help us. The dish farms are also a lot cheaper than the oceans and I bet a whole lot less risky. We need to start preserving our ocean wildlife because God created it to be beautiful. The Bible says that they made it to be eaten but also that he created enough for us. We need to use the resources and fish farming to keep our population fed and healthy.
In the first study examined, “Effect of Different Salinities on the Survival and Growth of Artemina Spp,” researchers Soundaraparian and Saravanakumar designed an experiment to ascertain the ideal conditions for the growth of brine shrimp, or Artemina. In the Introduction, the scientists note the growing significance of Artemina, as it is now used as live feed for over 85 percent of cultured species around the world. Thus, a demand to grow huge quantities of Artemia has arisen, making this study incredibly relevant.
“If there are no mangroves, then the sea will have no meaning. It is like having a tree without roots, for the mangroves are the roots of the sea…”(AMNH, 2003). Internationally, mangroves communities are recognised as pivotal in the sustaining of a healthy diverse ecosystem. However, since the late 1950s, human beings have decimated the total of mangrove forests by a third (Fidenci, 2007). The World Atlas of Mangroves states decimation of mangroves is occurring “four times faster” than on land forestation (Cook, 2010). There are a number of impacts, as these ‘highly productive ecosystems’ support the coastal and intertidal areas they are found within (Hogarth et al., 2007). They are invaluable, able to withstand varying levels of salinity and extreme weather conditions, playing a key role in the coastal aquatic ecosystems biological health and overall diversity (Wetlands International, 2012). They aid in the purification of the water, ridding it of potentially poisonous pollutants and toxins such as foreign wastes and poisons (National Geographic, 2010). Mangrove forests are found within estuaries and intertidal regions, however a vast majority of these are threatened (Polidoro, 2010). The importance of the mangroves is shown prominently by various factors, regarding environmental, economic and social perspectives.
Did you know that more than 90 percent of all organisms that have ever lived on Earth are extinct? According to Pandey, the author of Humans Pushing Marine Life toward ‘Major Extinction’, nearly 10,000 species go extinct each year, and this rate is estimated to be 1,000 times higher than the natural extinction rate (1). Human beings are causing irreversible damage to the oceans and their wildlife, which is being led by two major reasons: Commercial fishing or over-fishing, which damaged the marine environment and caused a loss in the marine life diversity, and pollution, which is a primary way of the extinction causes that drastically modifies the marine life habitat. As a result of the commercial fishing and pollution, many of the marine species will start disappearing of the oceans. Briggs emphasizes that over-fishing “has induced population collapses in many species. So instead of having less than a hundred species at risk, as was the case some 30-40 years ago, there are now a thousand or more (10).”