Advancements

Even though it sounds like after all this how can there be any good left in the world, there are a few areas that are trying to make a difference and stop the depleting of fish and start giving them time to re populate. Alaska is one of these places. They have a strict coast guard that patrols their waters for poaching. Every fishing boat in their waters has to have a fishing license and they have times when you can fish, you can call it like an open season that only lasts a week at most. Another example of great sustainable marina up keep is in the Caribbean. The lots of reefs around the islands have been declared no fishing zones; this does not apply to the locals that live there but to the fishing companies. This means that the locals can catch enough fish for sustainability and the reefs and fish can rebuild and re populate. The marine life there before was pretty much nonexistent, there were no fish, the reef was all gone or destroyed and the locals struggled for food but now it has almost grown back fully. These are both great starts to a sustainable fishing life style but the both share a common error and that is that 99.6 percent of the worlds ocean is fishable and fish don’t stay in one place so unless more governments adhere or copy these ideas, the fish move through the oceans, the migrate from coats to coast meaning they will leave the protected areas and go into commercial fishing waters and chancers are they will be caught by a fishing boat somewhere down the line.

                                                   Picture of the Caribbean reef

http://ecoforecast.coral.noaa.gov/index/0//caribbean-home

                                                               Alaskan coast guard

                                    http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Mellon717_1.jpg