Fish Genocide

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Fish, they have been the subject of their own fish genocide, Each year consistently advancing in technology to hunt the remaining percentage of this dwindling vertebrate. A local maine Lobsterman visited our class to talk about what laws and regulations have been placed to try and refurbish the population. The lobsterman talked about the decline of fish over the years he’s been in the fishing industry. To my surprise the Gulf of Maine actually has had many regulations. One of the recent is implementing a maximum of three mackerel for every trip, and cod fish now must be at least 21 inches or be thrown back. These regulations show us what is left of the nature population that once inhabited the gulf. They say you could walk on water because there was so …show more content…

These aren’t pick of the bunch fish, but the reality of not having any other type of fish in 30 years will be the normal for them. They will live their life just as we did, eating more and more fishies. I am not sure how to combat this problem but the regulations currently in place are not adequate to save the fish population. We need to create a new system in which fish are given proper time to repopulate. A small outline of a plan I thought of sounds a little like this, first off give all primarily focused fish a year off to spawn and deal with eating more abundant fish. Each year there would be a different species that can be fished with added regulations that would depict the amounts hauled in as well. The first year of the program would include the species that is the most stable at the time while the less stable species has time to regroup. This program would probably not appeal to the public, but it would give the fish many more years of inhabiting earth. This project wouldn’t save fish, it would only prolong their lives. I do not know if there is a way to save the fish, our growing population and it’s thirst for fish doesn’t add

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