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Over - Fishing
- Fish are a
renewable resource
- Fish stocks have
depleted greatly
- Why Over-Fishing
Takes Place
- Big Ships
Annotations:
- Some of today's trawlers are massive. They travel in fleets, which usually include a factory ship. This system allows them to fish for months. The fish can be stored in massive fridges.
- Modern Equipment
Annotations:
- - Echo Sounders are used to locate fish - Motorised cranes & winches haul huge catches - Huge nets catch tonnes of fish at a time
- Fish are
easy targets
- Big Ships
- If fishing continues at the
current rate, fish stocks
will collapse in 50 years
- What is being done to
save our fish stocks?
- Fishing fleets
have been
reduced
- Quotas
Annotations:
- Have been set by the EU. These quotas limit the amount of fish countries can catch each year
- Fishing for endangered
species is forbidden
- Fishery
Protection
Vessels
Annotations:
- Patrol the coast to prevent illegal fishing from foreign trawlers
- Fishing fleets
have been
reduced
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