Coming Greenwave: Ocean Farming To Fight Climate Change

Imagine a world with no oceans, no seas, no seashores or pieers. We would not have time to miss the dolphins that dive across the deep waters from left to right or the fish that swirl so majestically below the seas. The problem is many do not understand the significant roles of the oceans. Sustainability is about maintaining, preserving and using all sorts of resources without putting at risk our own needs and future generations, ironically that is what we are doing. Most of the oceans across the countries are being greatly impacted by issues not yet addressed. Sustainability is a global issue because plastic pollution, overfishing, and specie extinction is impacting many of our ecosystems and threatening our own survival. Researchers, have

We have been taking out so much from our oceans slowly leaving them with nothing to build a stronger shelter for creatures that are dependent. In result, because so many fish have disappeared, our food chains are becoming weaker.In the “Coming Greenwave: Ocean Farming to Fight Climate Change” by Brendan Smith, he emphasizes,“With nearly 90 percent of large fish stocks threatened by overfishing and 3.5 billion people dependent on the seas as their primary food source” (Smith, 270). Most of the large fish stocks are threatened due to overfishing, consequently putting at risk 3.5 billion people who rely on the seas for their own survival making this a global problem. Many of these people have families, their only purpose is to provide and meet the necessities of their loved ones. Which places them in a difficult situation, after all some have no intention in harming or worsening the ecosystem all they want to do is supply for their families. In “Sharing the Catch Conserving the Fish” by David Festa, he describes, “Additionally, overfishing has broad ecosystem impacts. For example, bottom trawling, in which boats drag gear and nets along the seafloor, can damage deepwater corals, sponges, and other features” (Festa, 2). The problem is not so much about what we do, but how we do it. Fishermen are not understanding the negative effects the act of overfishing is creating, the equipment being used while fishing is harming the living organisms such as corals and sponges along with many more. Eventually we will wipe out most of these sea creatures. In the article, “Specie Extinction” by Marcia Clemmitt, she states, “ Marine species are harder to count, but similar transformation has occurred in the oceans, where the number of large predators including cod and tuna, has dropped by up to 90 percent since 1950, mostly from overfishing” (Clemmit, 2). Most of our marine