Water_Resource_Plan

The video showed the water resource problem to be the decline of fish with the source which is over fishing. Many of the larger species of fish such as swordfish and tuna are gearing towards extinction with the issue of overfishing. Overfishing happens when the bigger fish are caught quicker than they can reproduce. Some of the fish are captured before they are old enough to reproduce and keep the species swimming around the ocean. There are people that own commercial businesses that involves the selling of fish. Their main job is to go out fishing and catch mainly the bigger species of fish and sell them in the market. The problem that is happening with that issue is that the demand for fish is increasing while the supply of fish is slowly declining. Jeremy Jackson from the Scripps Institute of Oceanography says that the problem can be reversed with the necessary steps. However, studies show that with this continued pace, this could be a huge issue on the ocean and has become more damaging than ocean pollution. It’s not only damaging the population of those species of fish but the animals that rely on those fish for food and the number of households that incorporate fish into their meals are suffering as well. There must be a sustainment plan to prevent the extinction of those fish that are most demanded in the fishing world. So I have come up with a sustainment plan that will keep the commercial fishers in business and the lives of the large fish that are caught in the population. Action Items: One of the actions that the video stated was to narrow the area where people were allowed to fish. Creating a time limit on fishing is another action item that may decline the process of extinction in fish. It will give those fish that are being caught at a young age a time to reproduce. The last action item that I would consider is charging fees or taxes. Fees are set in place to change behaviors. People would make a conscious effort when they see where their money is going. When things are free, nobody thinks about the effects. Order of Action Items: 1) Become familiar with the species of fish that are affected in the ocean 2) Research the effects of overfishing 3) Monitor fishing activity 4) Introduce the schedule for fishing days and non-fishing days 5) Compile fee revenue spreadsheet 6) Implement fees for fishing Water Resource Plan, 3 Action Steps: Contact local commercial fishing businesses. The commercial business can give me a better idea of the amount of fish that are in demand. Research laws and regulations concerning fishing and taxes. Timeline: Monitor fishing activity for the next six months. Implement the schedule for non-fishing days one year after notifying the public. Produce fee income for the last six months. The plan that I have put in place would be positive to environmentalist. Not only are we decreasing the number of days people have the opportunity to fish but we are going to charge fees/taxes to those commercial businesses. Hopefully implementing the fees will eliminate some of those unnecessary fishing and wasting of fish. However the fishermen would not be so intrigued by the rules that are put into place. Limiting the amount of days for fishing could cause the demand of fish to increase substantially. Charging fees/taxes will affect the business asset income and cause may cause an increase in prices for the consumers. My sustainment plan can affect the community in many ways. With the implementation of fees/taxes for fishing can increase the expenses for most businesses and either work negatively or positively. Most businesses will hand those cost off to consumers while most will charge to share those cost to maintain their level of business. There would be a definite change as far as numbers. The community would look upon my plan as a means to get more money into the economy. However I feel fees are a way to change behavior. If we don’t have anything to reprimand bad behavior than why change' Jobs could potentially be lost because of the increase of expenses. Overfishing is killing the environment and the innocent species of fish. Overfishing has been an increasing problem; more than the ocean pollution.