Fishing is a fun recreational activity and many people like to fish. From pinfish to tuna people catch fish all over the world. Some techniques are brutal and can hurt the environment. An exceptionally brutal tactic is longline fishing. This is where a long line of up to 12,000 hooks and at its longest thirty miles of rope for fish to eat the bait on the hooks and get stuck for a few hours and maybe even days. As said by the website Fishing Gear 101”Longlines are a highly indiscriminate fishing gear. They catch and kill many, many unintended species. ” Longline fishing has many problems such as harming plants and animals that don't need to be caught.It may feed a ton of people but it's not worth all of the harm it does.
There are two types of long lines: pelagic longlines and bottom long lines. Pelagic longlines sit on top of the water where many animals are in danger. AS said by
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Some people say there are ways to make it better, but it can never be perfected. One way to reduce catches is to shorten the length of the rope. The normal reach of a longline is 30 miles. If they shortened that length down to half a mile or 4 miles they would catch as many target fish they want but that also reduces unwanted catches. Another way to reduce catches as said on the website ocean bites “According to participants, the best way to reduce unwanted catch and mortality from longlines is to modify the fishing gear itself.”. Another way to reduce catch of unwanted fish or in this case birds is neon colored streamer lines. These bright colors scare off the birds so hey don't get caught on the line. A way to stop sea turtle catches is to use circle hooks instead of the standard j shaped hooks. On top of that using whole fish bait instead of squid means less sea turtle catches and less shark catches. All of these are ways to make long lines safer for the increasingly endangered species that get stuck on your
Different Lines can affect different lures in different ways.Diving crankbait and fluorocarbon is smaller and smoother than most lines making it cast farther.. Although flouro can make a topwater bait sink because the line itself sinks.Braid would be a better choice because there is no stretch and the braid itself floats. A jerkbait will have better action and will run deeper using Fluorocarbon. They will run deeper because the line is a lot more dense than other lines making it sink this is also the reason why it gives it better action. A Crankbait will run a lot deeper using fluoro and will cast farther. Again, fluorocarbon sinks so a 8 foot diving crankbait might become a 10 ft d stretch and it is a floating
In the past twenty years a large amount of bottlenose dolphin have been killed due to the tuna fishery. In the Eastern Pacific swim large schools of tuna, these shoals tend to be under herds of dolphins, for some unexplained reason. Because of this, fishermen can easily find schools of tuna. The tuna are being caught under purse seine nets, which encircles the shoals of tuna and then is pulled back on board the fishing vessel, catching both tuna and dolphin. Initially the mortality rate was 500,000 each year for dolphins alone. Although some efforts are made to encourage the dolphins to leave the net by backing down part of the net, which allows the dolphins to escape, there are still a large number of mortalities (Bryant). On the other hand, in the last few years there has been dramatic progress in stopping the fishing industries from using purse sine nets. It has been found that dolphins are in immediate danger of extinction if these fishing techniques don’t stop.
Due to the demand many packaging for the fish can find its was back to sea, or when fishermen are out at sea they can leave their garbage. Many nets from the boats and gears can also be found in the water, that fish can later see as food, eat it, and die; this ties back to extinction in fish. There is much pollution and decline stocks in fish because it is very hard to regulate the seas. To fulfill the growing demand for seafood, many companies are forced to fish beyond areas that are supposed to be non-fishing zones. This is because there are hardly any laws or restrictions telling them where they can and cannot fish. Sally Driscoll and Tom Warhol report in, ‘Overfishing’, that itt wasn’t until 1956 where we saw our first regulation, the United Nations organized the first UN Convention of the Law of the Sea or the NCLOS which helped promote rights of all countries by establishing boundaries off shore. Meaning that some seafood fished in certain areas of the ocean cannot be sold in certain countries, and in some areas it is illegal to fish unless you have a permit from that country. Economy also helps make it harder to regulate the seas, in ‘Overfishing’ it is explained that Preisdent Barack Obama brought up Antiquities Act of 1906, that let fishermen expand their fishing areas. The United Nations FAO estimates that 25 percent of all fish trapped in nets are labeled unusable or not licensed for fishing by the
In the late 1990s fishermen were getting stressed and many of them turned in their boats. This is because the government made new rules and regulations for the fishing industry. These rules are supposed to help endangered fish, although some are not helping at all. The government allows small boat fishermen to catch only 500 pounds of cod per day and requires them to toss any extra overboard before they reach shore.
...rients and balance sea floor sediments. Many environmental and government run programs have been created to help the efforts of saving sea turtles. Some of the actions include making mass fishing companies use safer methods to prevent catching turtles, ordinances that control lighting along beachside properties, and small groups protecting nests from their creation to hatching. In addition to these measures, wire mesh gratings are put over the nests in order to protect them from being scavenged by foxes (Kurz, Straley, Degregorio, 2011). Although these efforts do make a positive impact, loggerhead’s migration patterns are so vast and worldwide that it is almost impossible to truly enforce conservation efforts. This is because sometimes they can be seen as an “inconvenience”. It is important that we strive to protect this important component of the ocean’s ecosystem.
Generation after generation gathered food off the land, people are continuing to practice this in our modern world today. Societies expressly continue to gather their own food as it provides an inexpensive, delightful tasting meal. One of the techniques of our historical past that is still in use today, that has been used for generation after generation is “netting” fish. Netting is a classic technique that has not faced as many revisions to its practice. It persists from one generation to the next due to the fact, that many do not understand it to be harmful to the environment; others may enjoy the idea of letting commercial fisheries catch large numbers of fish as it continues to keep some of Americans favorite meals low cost. Devastating fall out from neglectful thinking about netting will occur in the future if preservative action toward this way of life is not taken. Minimizing the use of nets in waterways will ensure salmon and other fish survive for many more generations to come, allowing this plentiful food source given to us by Mother Nature to be exploited and enjoyed by our future kin. With food sources now readily available, fishing with nets should be reevaluated as follows; who is allowed to fish with nets, what are their purposes, and how will this effect tributary fishing populations.
You're planning a vacation to Hawaii and want to do some fishing while here. If you're planning to hop on a charter sport fishing boat or some other commercial offshore excursion, you don't have anything to worry about except for showing up at the dock on time.
any given day, thousands of fishing boats are out on the ocean, prowling the seas. Many trail strong,
Amberjack, mackerel, snapper galore! Trigger fish, grouper, blue marlin and more! These are but a few of the fishy bounty of Louisiana's Gulf Coast fishing scene. In addition to a plethora of game, Louisiana's gulf boasts sparkling open waters, clear blue skies and the satisfying sensation of salty ocean breeze over fisherman's skin. What a way to feel alive, under the southern sun: a fisher, a rod and a boat ready for action.
There are many types of methods for catching fish some of which are not environmentally friendly. Dredging which is done by dragging a mesh bag made of metal along the seafloor is one of these methods. Because this fishing method involves dragging a metal object on the seafloor, a lot of the sea life gets pummeled to death while also ruining the habitat in that area. Fortunately, this fishing method is not used when fishing for Alaska salmon. Another method of fishing that causes quite some damage to the environment is trawling. Trawling, like dredging, uses a net, however, it uses a funnel shaped net instead and can be done at a variety of depths. When it is used near or on the ocean floor, it can cause major habitat damage similar to that of dredging. However, when done at a higher point, it causes very
When fishers throw their nets, the turtles get caught in the nets causing damages to their body or drowning them. When juvenile loggerheads head to their foraging area in the water, they are highly exposed to bycatching, international longlines, and illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) longline fisheries causing high mortality rates (Peckham et al. 2008). Though juveniles have a higher mortality rate due to bycatch, longlines and trade since they are still maturing, adults are easily exposed to these threats as
We are also catching to many fish and the fish are not able to sustain their population. There are plenty of fish on the endangered list due to over fishing and some of these fish are surprisingly commonly consumed across the United States. I’ll fill you in on the top ten: Alaskan Halibut, it’s a largest flat fish and it’s found in the North Atlantic. #2 is the Beluga Sturgeon, it’s usually consumed for its fillets and eggs that are known as “true caviar”. #3 is Acadian Redfish. #4 is Orange Rough, #5 is the Winter Skate (usually made into fishmeal or lobster bait). #6 the Bocaccio Rockfish, the most endangered in the West. #7 is the European Eel, when these juveniles are caught out at sea they have not yet spawned. #9 is the Goliath Grouper, their harvesting has been banned. #10 is the Maltese Ray, that is now only found in one area of the world, The Strait of Sicily. Most of these fish are being caught as bycatch, meaning they weren’t the intended target species. Our methods of fishing are a big contributor to this problem and bottom trawling, which is mainly used, is one of the most destructive ways to fish. Bottom trawling uses heavy nets that are dragged across the ocean floor catching everything, letting nothing escape. Simultaneously, this kind of trawling destroys reefs and habitats along the way and It could take decades to repair the damage done by bottom
Many people see hunting and fishing as the slaughtering of innocent animals for no reason other than sport and fun. However, the truth is, hunting and fishing are beneficial to people, environments, and the economy. Hunting and fishing are beneficial to the economy because they cause a major economic impact. Hunting and fishing are beneficial to environments and people because they reduce damages done by wildlife overcrowding. Hunting and fishing are also beneficial to people because they provide a healthy, affordable source of food.
On the first casts with our modified lures, we got bites and set our hooks, but only to the dismaying result of slackened line. Upon retrieval, we fou...
The reel on the left is the simpler design. That design has a stationary spindle and a bar that rotates around it to collect the line. On most models the drag works by a screw on the top of the spindle that applies pressure on the spindle to increase or decrease the friction to allow the spindle to spin if the fish applies enough force to overcome the friction. The problem with this design is that once the fish breaks the static friction the resistance to the fish pulling out line decreases and it is very difficult to change while fighting a fish.