Overfishing

Overfishing. When I was growing up I never thought that there would be a word such as, overfishing. I always knew that the world was mostly water and I would always go fishing and saw how many fish were in little ponds; so I could only imagine how many were in the ocean. But, the truth is overfishing is very real. We have ruined certain lakes, streams, rivers, and other bodies of water all around the world with pollution. That means we have brought down the fish population a ton. Also, we have found such good ways to fish that we have actually fished too much. Now we are actually taking too much fish out of the array of bodies of water. Some fishing companies use huge nets, either on the bottom or top of the water, to go and scoop up the fish. Even helicopters are used to find schools of fish and tell the workers on the boat where those fish are.

Since some of the fish populations are too low to fish, fishing companies have moved towards genetically modifying fish and feeding them certain foods so that they grow faster and become bigger. As everyone knows there are more people on the earth no than ever before, so fish demand is high but the populations are low. The impacts of overfishing can be grave. 

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