Illegal Fishing

If an ordinary poor fisherman will do his best and even the very extreme and desperate ways like dynamite fishing just only to get fish to feed his family daily is understandable; but scrapping the marine life beneath the sea through bottom trawling for commercial purposes is like destroying the ecosystem or the life beneath the sea. It is not understandable why they have to scrap all the fishes they could get without replacing what they have get from the seas and oceans whereas they benefitted much of it when they trade and manufacture into profitable products the fishes they have trawl by their huge trawl nets? I guess these bottom trawlers still done nothing to compensate what they have taken away from the seas and oceans where their huge trawl nets where once spread.

The only thing that was done and doing against this kind of fishing called bottom trawling is to ban the trawlers from doing their way of fishing or from doing bottom trawling. However, banning will not really stop bottom trawling fishers from stopping to their bottom trawling acts. Of course, if they have benefitted much from this and it is the only means for them to have a living, nothing will hinders them to do bottom trawling way of fishing. I guess, the ban and moratorium is only for high seas bottom trawling and not exactly the entire activity. So, bottom trawling activity is still a hot type of fishing activity for those who want to get more fish in order to get more money out of it. So what’s the point on banning if it is only selective anyway? But of course, if bottom trawling is totally ban, fishing will be back to basics and there would be no sufficient quantity of fresh fishes, shrimps, and other sea foods we could buy at wet markets. Moreover, those who manufacture canned sea foods like sardines, tuna, salmon, etc. may be greatly affected in manufacturing fresh products using freshly fished sea life like fish, shrimps, etc. Not only the sea food manufacturing industry will be affected by a total ban of bottom trawling but also those who use sea food like shrimps on their menus or recipes on restaurants and cafes around the world.

You see it has double effects that are if one continues to do bottom trawling activities, especially on high seas and oceans, the one that will be affected by this activity are of course the living creatures that live in the sea and oceans. Marine life and their ecosystem will greatly and severely devastated if this bottom trawling activity will continue to persist. In other hand, if bottom trawling activities is being stop permanently, we humans are the one who will greatly and severe devastated by the lack and insufficiency of sea foods on our dining tables and on our sea food manufacturing business and food businesses like restaurant. So are we to got veggies then and farm meats if sea foods decline on supply because bottom trawling is permanently out and stop from fishing activity?