Sources

http://www.grinningplanet.com/2005/06-07/overfishing-article.htm

Grinning planet is an organization that takes a look at environmental issues from a little lighter side. They use family-friendly jokes and cartoons to spread the message about different issues. Mixed in with the jokes are serious articles such as this one about the cause and effect of overfishing. This article will be useful for me because it breaks the topic of overfishing down to a problem and a solution.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overfishing

Haha, what can I say, it’s Wikipedia! I liked this entry because it talked about overfishing in a different way than most of the other articles I found. It actually talks about how overfishing can be broken down to two different categories. First, is the more popular category of “biological overfishing” where the reproduction of fish is effected. The article also looks into what they call the “economic overfishing” which is the effect on the profitability of fishing due to the current rate of fish being taken out of the sea.

http://www.un.org/events/tenstories_2006/story.asp?storyID=800

I thought this would be a good article to read because it actually comes from the UN. The story falls under the organization’s, “10 Stories the World Should Hear More About.” I thought this would be a great way to back up my opinion, and the article states a few good facts as well. It talks a lot about the impact overfishing will have on the “200 million people” that rely on fish for livelihood and food security.

http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/marine/problems/problems_fishing/index.cfm

I liked this site because one, it was from the World Wild Life Foundation, and two, it is packed with tons of facts that I will be able to use to back up my opinion. I also liked the fact that the site is well organized and is easy to read. They state a few straight forward facts, such as “ technological advances that have made large-scale fishing easier.” The cool thing is that there is a hyperlink on the words “technological advances” that takes me to a whole other article about technological advances of fishing boats.

http://www.alaskaoceans.net/facts/overfishing.htm

This site was good for me because it has to do specifically with the overfishing problem in Alaska. I am hoping to be able to talk a little bit about the fishing problems in Alaska, and this will probably turn out to be a great source for that. The article delves into the history of Alaska commercial fishing, and also gives 3 different deffinitions of overfishing; one political, one legal, and one scientific.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/overfishing

One of the best things about the topic I am doing is that there are a lot of articles from major organizations that I will be able to support my argument with. This article is no different. It comes from the Greenpeace Organization, and is a little smaller than most of the other articles, but is filled with facts. One of the key points in this article is the example of cod fishing off of Canada, which has gone through a major decline in the last few years.

http://whyfiles.org/139overfishing/

I liked this article because it was a little different than the rest, and it brought up a good point that none of the others had thought of or talked about. It talks about the increasing number of shark attacks, and relates them to the fact that the sharks are being pushed closer to shorelines because of deep sea overfishing. It’s a fairly short article, but I thought it’s topic was interesting.



http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/24/magazines/business2/Prob6_Overfishing.biz2/index.htm

This was a neat article from a contributor I would have never thought of (thanks Google!). It actually came from CNN’s Money section, and it talks about the effect overfishing will have on the fishing economy. I liked this article because rather than concentrate only on the negative, it talks mostly about the solution to the problem. I will definitely fit this somewhere into my paper!

http://www.bookrags.com/news/big-eye-tuna-stocks-near-collapse-moc/

This is actually a newspaper article from the Reuters North American News Service. This particular article is strictly about the depletion of Bigeye Tuna, which is a major ingredient in many Japanese restaurants. The point that I will most likely use is the fact that the bigeye tuna is starting to become depleted only because the bluefin tuna has already been fished to a dangerously low level.

http://www.bookrags.com/news/feature-overfishing-turns-the-moc/

This article is from the International News Service and is about the depleting number of fish in the Mediterranean Sea. There were a couple of interesting things that I would like to take out of the article. One of the pieces I want to use is the article talking about how a lot of the smaller fishing vessels realize that something needs to be done, where the larger fishing companies only see the sea as a source of money.

http://overfishing.org/discuss/index.php?topic=43.0

This is an awesome bank of videos that shows how drag netting works, and what it looks like on the sea floor. A lot of people are against drag netting because it allows boats to take huge quantities of fish, but it also harms the sea floor by destroying coral and other fish habitats. One particular good video is titled “Trawling Debate” and it is a debate done in the late 80s which contains many good points.

http://overfishing.org/pages/Satellite_images_from_bottom.php

This is actually a bunch of pictures that show how drag netting works. I thought it was interesting to see how much area these boats actually cover with their nets. In some of the pictures, there are boats lined up five or six deep, trolling huge areas of water. There are also some descriptions that have a few good facts about drag netting that I will use for the paper.

http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/~sustain/global/sensem/S98/Tao/bio191cw.html

This is actually an essay by Kenny Tao, and it comes from the University of California, Irvine. I haven’t gotten the chance to read all of the essay yet, but Mr. Tao has included some very good information including statistics, quotes, and even a few graphs. His paper is focused on the North Atlantic, and I am sure I will find many good facts I can use for my paper.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/08/050830072609.htm

This is an article from the publication, “Science Daily.” the title of the article is “Coral Reef Decline - Not Just Overfishing.” As the title suggests, the article talks more about the damage to coral reefs due to global warming, overfishing, and coral disease. I definitely want to talk about the coral reefs in my paper, and this will be a good source for that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKrHjpBUpYs

This is an interesting video titled “Over Fishing - USA.” I clicked on the video and was happy to find out that the video is actually focused on overfishing in Alaska. They talked a lot about the Stellar Sea Lions and their depletion due to the fact that their food source is being wiped out by large fishing vessels.