Warner Brother's Happy Feet: The Marine System Is Endangered

As a whole the world has so many resources used in everyday life for different reasons. These include water, wood, oil, air, animal products, and plants, but these resources will not last forever. People every day are causing harm to the environment through different methods like, deforestation, pollution, global warming and overfishing. Warner Brother’s Happy Feet showed that overfishing is a great harm to many species of penguins near the Antarctic areas. Overfishing is when fish are caught at a faster rate than the fish can actually produce themselves. This in returns creates a shortage of fish for other animals who eat them as a source of food. Without the fish they no longer have a food source and are endangered to die from starvation. Since Happy Feet aired in 2006, the concept of overfishing causing animals to become extinct or endangered has surfaced in the minds of many people. From watching Happy Feet as a whole, the marine system is endangered in so many ways. The major threat to the world’s marine

This is known by the many fishing laws and policies that have been created for fishermen to obey in everyday life. Most are considered to be known without seeing the laws because it is basic morals and principals everyone should know. The most important one to the topic at hand is the right to fish comes with certain obligations and responsibilities to help ensure conservation of aquatic and costal resources and those affected (Lam 309, FAO.Code). This basically says when fishing, the fishermen has to take responsibilities for their actions. To conserve the lives of many aquatic animals, all rules must be followed accurately. If not it’s a risk to almost all the populations of aquatic species because it causes a chain reaction. If the food supply is damaged, the species dies, and that same species that dies could have also been a food source to another species that in turns dies as