This article talks about how North Carolina fishing regulators are limiting shrimping in their state. Their plan calls for limiting shrimping to three days on the Intercoastal Waterway and four days on the Ocean within three miles of shore. This would improve the number and quality of shrimp and other commercial fish. This will mean that North Carolina fisherman, will take a step back in terms of profit from Shrimp farming. This will mean that in the short term North Carolina Fisherman will make less money.

This relates to the environment in that, North Carolina is establishing these restrictions in order to revive the shrimp population on the coast of North Carolina. This will have positive environmental consequences, such as balancing the food pyramid. A species that could only be eaten by shrimp could grow way too big, and disrupt the entire food chain. Re-balancing the shrimp populations would make sure that would not happen.

Authors, AP. US News. Associated Press, 17 Feb. 2017. Web. 12 Mar. 2017.

This article talks about how overexploiting current fisheries is not a smart way to manage a renewable resource like fish stocks. Fisheries lost an estimated 83 billion in 2012. To make sure that overexploitation is not taking place in fisheries, the World Bank has given Morocco financing in the form of Development Policy Loans. Morroco will use this money in order to stop illegal, unreported, and unregulated fish practices that threaten fish population renewal.

This relates to the environment, in that the World Bank is helping to stop fishing practices that are not good for the environment. They are doing this by giving loans of money to Morocco, so they can better manage illegal unreported and unregulated fishing practices that can harm the environment. These can harm the environment through the depletion of essential fish to an ecosystem, which can cause a collapse in the food chain. This can mean not only do these fish go extinct, but plenty other creatures will go extinct. 

“Global Fisheries’ Sunken Billions.” World Bank. The World Bank, 14 Feb. 2017. Web. 12 Mar. 2017.

The United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration has put a fishing ban on China in the North China Sea. China’s ban begins on May 1, 2017 and ends on August 17, 2017. China has blocked other nations such as Vietnam and the Phillipines from fishing in their traditional fishing grounds by using armed coast guard vessels, and ramming fish boats or threatening military action. In addition the South China Sea holds 10 percent of the worlds fisheries.

This relates to the environment, in that if China is banned from overharvesting seafood from parts of the North and South China Sea, they will likley make up for it by overharvesting in another oceanic region. China has a growing demand for seafood, that will have to be met. China will overharvest seafood in another region potentially giving tons of long-term consequences for that region down the line. These potential consequences include extinction of species, a dramatic altering of the food chain in that region.

“In Peru, Fishing Less Anchoveta Pays Off.” World Bank. World Bank Group, 6 Mar. 2017. Web. 12 Mar. 2017.

Peru is home to a very large single stock fishery of the Anchoveta. Until 2009, The Peruvian Anchoveta Fisher was managed as an Open-Access Fishery. This led to companies investing in huge vessels to catch as much fish as they could. The government put the World Bank in charge of the Industrial Anchoveta Fishery. The first step the World Bank took was restoring the health of the stocks by reducing fishing.

This relates to the Environment in that, if the World Bank did not step in to help this fishery, the Anchoveta fish may have gone extinct in that region. This could have many potential consequences, such as this fish not being able to be turned into potential omega-3 oil supplements, and turned into potential fishmeal for livestock and aquaculture in many different countries. This is a great example of what happens in a Tragedy of the Commons scenario.

George / January 31, 2017 / Leave a Comment / Bad News For The Planet, Russ. “Japanese Salmon Fisheries In Historic Collapse Help On The Way.” Russ George. N.p., 02 Feb. 2017. Web. 12 Mar. 2017.

In Japan the NW Pacific Fish has plunged 30-40% just from the year 2016 to 2017. This resulted in nearly 75 million dollars in direct fishery losses. The regulatory restrictions imposed by the government have done nothing to stop the reducing population of NW Pacific Fish. The collapse of the NW PAcific fish has been attributed to poor Ocean Survival. Some fisherman want the government to intervene and do something about the ocean pasture restoration.

This is related to the environment due to the sudden loss of NW Pacific Fish foretelling some damage humans are doing to impact the fishs ecosystem. One possible problem is that these fish are starving at sea, which could foretell some Environmental problems with the food system. The NW Pacific Fish’s food could be dying out due to its sensitive nature in the water.

Indonesia is becoming the world’s largest exporter of prawns to the United States. Indonesia is producing these prawns through their fisheries, and they have found a potential gold mine in the country of the United States. Exporting prawns to the United States has been a boon for the Indonesian Economy. In addition Indonesia’s 0.05 percent rejection rate for prawns is at an all time low. This can also help support for the growing demand of frozen prawns in the United States.

This article illustrates the problem of food consumption growing in the United States. As people in the United States become more affluent, their consumption of food increases, which causes more food to be produced to meet the growing demand. This also effects the environment through the feed that needs to be produced to raise the prawns. It also effects the environment, through the fossil fuels it takes to transport the prawns to the United States.

Sufa, Theresia. “Indonesia Markets Fisheries Products to US.” The Jakarta Post. The Jakarta Post, 17 Nov. 2016. Web. 20 Nov. 2016.