BY5.8 Overfishing

Overfishing:

• fishing nets are indiscriminate
• thousands of fish get killed needlessly as they're not what the fishers intended to catch
• overfishing can affect fish stocks as well as fisherman's livelihoods

commercial fishing:

• fish that live in the upper parts of the water are cuaght by drift netting
• this involves suspending a net between 2 boats so the fish swim into it
• once caught the fish can only escape if they fit through the mesh

• fish that live in the deeper parts of the water are caught by trawling
• this involves dragging a large net through the water and catching whatever is in the way
• nets with very smal mesh are banned as they catch young fish before they are mature enough to reproduce

effects of overfishing on other wildlife:

• overfishing of a particualr species has a knock on effect on the efood…