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Water Resource Plan Part A- Revitalizing Ocean Dwellers

After viewing the Declining Fish Stock VLR I concluded that the problem existing is the over harvesting of large ocean-dwelling fish such as swordfish and tuna. This particular problem originated from commercial fisherman catching and keeping excessive amounts of fish thus causing a depletion in the species of the large ocean dwellers.
I propose a management and sustainment plan that asks for outlawing the use of sonar and planes for spotting, imposed fishing seasons, and eliminating floating fish farms. An emphasis on the harvesting of the top three species of fish that are used in restaurants also needs to take place: yellowfin tuna, cod, and bluefin tuna. Restaurants and the trends in the way society and the world eats is ever changing; sushi for instance is a rapidly growing in popularity and it has increased the consumption and demand of tuna. Much of the highly prized fish stock is exported for sushi and can reach upwards of $15 a pound and a single large adult bluefin can fetch a price of $50,000.
There are generations of commercial fisherman, most of them family run businesses for over one hundred years. Early on fishermen depended on lucky fishing holes only found by repetition and hard work. Now we are a society that develops technologically at a very rapid pace. According to Stefan Lovgren for National Geographic News (2006) “High-tech tuna boats from countries such as France, Italy, and Spain use sonar and airplane spotters to find schools in the remaining tuna grounds, located off the coasts of Cyprus, Egypt, and Libia”. It is now allowing fisherman to catch fish with very little skill involved because the new sonar devices literally take pictures of the sea floor and allow them to spot the tuna and other schools of fish in an instant.
According to Lovgren (2006) “Most of the bluefin tuna currently caught is caged alive in floating tuna farms in Croatia and across the Mediterranean. Small juvenile fish are used as seed stock in the...