Fishing is seen as a hobby to most people, but other do not realize how detrimental it is on our environment. Why is fishing becoming more detrimental to our environment as the years go by and how is it being effected? I, for one, have been fishing from a very young age, and have learned to catch what I only want to keep. With that in mind, I've realized in the many years I've lost lots of gear due to underwater obstructions and other reasons. Never did I realize what happened to the material that I would lose. 

After taking some Environment and Marine Science classes, I started to notice how much people are leaving their human imprints on the environment and the other marine life. Now that I took those classes I have a better understanding of how fishing has hindered the environment. Taking those classes showed me how everything is connected from the smallest organisms being plankton to some of the bigger organisms of the food web being sharks and even people. If we continue on the path we are going with fishing, the environment will be put into a state of no return. Also, if that happens, there will be no future fishing for other generations to see, leaving out more of a sentimental feeling from the past time. 

In the first article that I used it shows fishing down the marine food web. Throughout the article it showed many graphs and different locations of where the trophic levels of fish increase and decrease depending on how advanced the area was in technology and time. With the graphs showing the many negative correlations in all the graphs, we can interpret that the trophic levels are decreasing, meaning that with each decrease in the trophic level the marine species is also decreasing in population. Also if the fish decrease there is a chance of losing a marine species to an endangered list or even possibly extinction. The authors of the article shows pictures of each graph and explains each of them. The authors post all their sources at the end showing documentation of what they used. The authors do not seem one sided in their context towards the subject of fishing, but they leave more of a hidden idea that if we continue on the path we are going, something will be effected in the process. 

The second article that I used shows the different ways people hinder marine life. The article claims that with all these different ways of fishing, it will leave the environment unbalanced for the future, resulting in endangerment or even extinction of marine species. It shows an in depth explanation of the different types of ways human hurt fish and how this will not only effect marine life, but us too. For example, ghost fishing, bottom trawling, shrimping, and some others. If we continue increasing the statistics that are shown in the article about the different types of fishing, it will push marine life to the brink of extinction. Also once we lose that source of food, it will effect both the economy and food sources for countries that heavily rely on fishing for their survival. The author displays many cited sources, and the author is bias towards the thought of the way people are fishing. For example shrimping and bottom trawling which results in lots of bycatch, killing other marine life on accident. 

In the third article it displays specific details of what else affects marine life. For example how people do drilling in the ocean for oil, and destroy natural habitats of many marine life. In addition, if that happens it will force marine life to look for a new area to live in. If they move, it moves a source of food for other marine animals because they are all connected into a web and are reliant on one another. Once one animal starts to disappear the rest will start to fall just like the first for a new source of food, resulting in like a domino effect. The authors are not fully bias towards the subject of fishing, but they feel we should be more considerate of what we are doing to the environment for the future. 

People in society feel that fishing is necessary to regulate species from over populating areas and keep a natural balance. But others feel that we are regulating too much and are starting to have a negative effect on nature. Some of the articles showed that they were totally biased towards the subject of fishing, but the other articles were not totally biased just wanted a change in what we were doing to our environment. The controversial side of the topic is that fishing should be more heavily regulated for the future existence of marine life and human past times. The different articles showed a single correlation of ideas, saying that our human print on nature is being very detrimental. I might go more in depth about nature instead of the specific ways fish are being effected. 

