“Failures and Success of International Fisheries Management.” ACE, 10 Aug. 2023, ace-usa.org/blog/research/research-foreignpolicy/failures-and-success-of-international-fisheries-management/. 

Fishery management internationally requires lots of compromise, research, and persistence in order to find long-term solutions to the issues we currently face. Illegal and unreported fishing is a major cause for concern currently and many nations have surveying, recording, and verification tactics to try and reduce the negative effects of these issues. Surveillance of the transportation of fish is a main reason the nation’s need to work together. 

This article relates to environmental science because it shows what each nation’s leaders are going to have to do if we want to solve the issues that we’re facing. This article explains how the fishing industry has become a cause of concern for places other than just the US and we need to work together and compromise and find solutions to these issues. 

“U.S. Fishing Policy Is Boosting Fish Populations, Not Constraining Most Fisheries.” EPIC, 27 June 2023, epic.uchicago.edu/news/us-fishing-policy-is-boosting-fish-populations-not-constraining-most-fisheries/. 

In America commercial fishing employs over 1.2 million people and generates more than $165 billion dollars annually. Global warming and sea level rise and greatly threatening commercial fisheries. The Magnuson-Stevens Act reactivation was stalled for a decade because of how strict it is. More advanced and liberal universities debate the claims of its strictness claiming that it is a very effective way to rebuild the fish population but doesn’t necessarily limit fishers. Sustainable fishing is achievable with different guidelines and regulations but we need to change the ways we are currently fishing for that to be possible. 

This article relates to environmental science because it gives really shocking statistics on how impactful the fishing industry is for America. These statistics show how important it is to protect the resources we do have and different ways we’re trying to do that. It also shows how environmental science, specifically in relating to regulations and laws, has become so political in our world today. 

Swan, Ashleigh. “Sustainable Fishing: The Tech Making It Cheaper and Greener.” BBC News, BBC, 3 Nov. 2023, www.bbc.com/news/technology-67093211.  

Off the west coast of Scotland a fisherman named Ian Wightman has started using new fishing technologies to try to reduce bycatch. These technologies include LED lights that attract specific fish but repel mammals. The world wildlife foundation has done research that proves how illuminating lights can help to increase the efficiency of fishing as well as reducing the bycatch. These lights are a “win-win” for fishers and the environment alike! The major issue in these technology advancements are the accessibility and affordability for fishers all over the world. 

This article relates to environmental science because it shows the positive side of scientific research and how it can develop technology that not only decreases harm but increases effectiveness. It also shows another side of environmental science that we often don’t think about, the accessibility of these new technologies. 

Jones, Benji. “America’s Best Idea to Protect Its Oceans Has One Big Problem: It’s Not Working.” Vox, 23 May 2023, www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2023/5/23/23720486/marine-protected-areas-sanctuaries-fishing-conservation.   

The United States, a place known for its vast national parks and marine protected areas (that make up about 26% of U.S waters),concentrates these protected areas mostly in the central pacific. Though 26% of waters may seem like a lot since the protections are all mainly in one area it leaves much of the U.S open to oil drilling and excessive commercial fishing even in marine protected areas practices such as bottom trawling, leading to the degradation of marine sanctuaries are legal and shrill very harmful. Even though Biden had claims of extending and advancing the protected areas it is questionable how effective these measures have been.

This relates to environmental science because it analyzes the different protected areas in the US and what is being done that harms our environment in unprotected areas. Oil drilling has proved very harmful to our environment in terms of global warming. The commercial fishing shows a great example of tragedy of the commons where we are over using a resource that has potential to be renewable. This article also shows what the government is trying to do for the environment and how it’s potentially ineffective. 

“European Parliament Approves New Fisheries Control Rules Five Years after Initial Proposal.” SeafoodSource Official Media, www.seafoodsource.com/news/premium/environment-sustainability/european-parliament-approves-new-fisheries-control-rules-five-years-after-initial-proposal.  Accessed 6 Feb. 2024. 

The European union started approving new fishery control rules, these rules come mostly from the European Union’s fisheries. These new rules hope to modify, simplify, and modernize the fishing process by involved much more technology used to track the amount/types of fish caught. These new rules started in 2024 and only small vessel boats will have exceptions to these rules until 2023 where no one can be exempt fromm following these rules. 

This relates to environmental science because it has to do with the technology that we can bring into our environment, specifically Fisheries that will make it more sustainable and will help with the tragedy of the comments relating to a lot of fish around the world. this also shows that it’s not just the US that’s I’m worried about fishing and Fisheries it’s all over the world, and the European Union is making significant changes that will affect the Fisheries in the future. 

In California the Pacific Fishery Management Council has banned the recreational and commercial fishing of King salmon. California officials are now asking for federal disaster aid for the fishers affected by this ban. Since the ban is necessary to the environment but also impacts the fishing economy greatly compensation is in order. The projected loss for the 2023 salmon season is $45 million. 

This is a very relevant to environmental science because it shows the direct connection between environmental science and many real life issues. The suistanability of the salmo fishing is extremly important to our planet because we are simply running out of salmon but the economics of that fishery are also extremely important and this reach out to the federal government of disaster compensation is a possible, temporary, solution to this issue.

Watson, Julie, and Lisa Baumann. “California Seeks Federal Help for Salmon Fishers Facing Ban.” AP News, AP News, 7 Apr. 2023, apnews.com/article/salmon-fishing-ban-chinook-west-coast-fd818fb1489834d5f8f9371818178b11. 

The “30 x 30” initiative is aimed to designate 30% of the Earth to being illegal to fish in. This plan was created by California Governor Gavin Newsom and Biden to try and conserve these areas of land and water to encourage sustainability. This initiative also considers the Indegenious communities and what they have done for years to keep the ecosystems they use suistainabile. 

This article is an example of environmental science taking place in government procedures because it shows an effort to revive the suistanabilities in different California ecosystems. It also shows how we can take scientific practices from other cultures and allow them to collaborate and influence our decisions. Environmental science is such an impotant part of our future and will be critical for my generations life, this is an example of when environmental science was used to create an innovative and itelligent solution to try to work on making fishing a more sustainable industry. 

Heid, Nick. “California 30×30 Fishing Initiative: More No Fishing Zones to Come.” Surf Fishing In So Cal, 2 Apr. 2023, surffishingsocalsd.com/california-30×30-fishing-initiative-more-no-fishing-zones-to-come/. 

The salmon populations in California are at an all time low, due to the drought the drier months produce much less salmon then the wetter months. The salmon population follows a  three year cycle so 2023 might have a slight uptick due to the moisture in 2019 and 2020.  The salmon population in California rivers are at an all time low so, there are efforts to reduce the salmon fishing that will take place this year but scientists are still very concerned about the state of salmon. 

This article is environmental science because it deals with the populations of salmon and the current suistanability of salmon in our environment. It also deals wit the impacts of our lack of environmental consideration and its effects for our future. Since salmon is such a big part of our ecosystem and the economic life for fishers and port-cities it’s very important to make sure that that is a resource that can remain sustainable and usable, which humans are not doing at good job at right now. 

“CDFW News: Fishery Scientists Announce Poor 2023 Outlook for California’s Ocean Salmon Stocks.” CDFW, wildlife.ca.gov/News/Archive/fishery-scientists-announce-poor-2023-outlook-for-californias-ocean-salmon-stocks#gsc.tab=0. Accessed 27 Aug. 2023. 

This article explains how competitive California groundfish sport fishing is being drastically regulated. This is because of new found scientific data about declining near shore fish populations. The fishing season near shore is going to be shortened. These were made by the Pacific fishery management. Similar changes are being considered for state waters.

This is relevant to environmental science because it shows the effect of fishing regulations on somerthing other then changing industries rules. None of the other articles involved sport fishing and its interesting to see this aspect of the fishing regulations in california. 

By. “Big Changes to Sport Groundfish Regulations Coming in 2023.” Edhat, 10 Aug. 2022, www.edhat.com/news/big-changes-to-sport-groundfish-regulations-coming-in-2023. . 

This article shows the effect of what unsuistainable fishing and environmental treatment does to an entire ecosystem of fish and how that effects the people that fish them. The salmons migrating to california are having a difficult time due to droughts, dams, and water temperature and the industry of salmon fishing in San Francsisco is struggling greatly with this loss. Many families rely on salmon fishing to feed themselves and run businesses and they are starting to notice the steady decline of salmon in the past few years alarming them to the affects of global warming and humans intrusion on this species.

This article is related to environmental science because it dicusses the environmental impacts we have been seeing in the past few years and the effects we are having on creatures in the environment and their ecosystems. I have a pretty strong reaction to this article, mostly because this Summer I was up in Seattle working on a photography course and we had a speaker come in and spend all day discussing her work in photographing Alaskian Salmon and teaching us about the lifetime of a salmon and global warmings affects on them. (Her name is Amy Gulick and she wrote the book Salmon in the Trees: Life in Alaska’s Tongass Rain Forest)

Norman, Nicole, and Rachel Ramirez. “California’s Salmon Fishers Warn of ‘hard Times Coming’ as They Face Canceled Season.” CNN, Cable News Network, 2 Apr. 2023, www.cnn.com/2023/04/02/us/salmon-fishing-ban-california-climate/index.html.