Fish Lives Matter

Fish has always been an important food source ever since the start of mankind. Fish is consumed almost in every restaurant. But every day we are causing more problems in the ocean which is affecting the fishes we eat. What’s making our oceans worse is caused by the excessive use of fossil fuels, coal, and gas all over the world. Nations need to limit their use of fuels that end up being exposed to the Earth’s atmosphere since it has been proven that burning fuels lead to global warming and changes in temperature in oceans.

According to a study, warming oceans from human-caused climate change have shrunk the populations of many fish species around the world (Rice, 2019). The world’s seas are becoming increasingly acidic because of the rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide (Rice, 2019). We tend to expose lots of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere because everything we use from cars to cooking foods produces carbon dioxide and just some information on what does; it “holds onto” ultraviolet rays into the earth to keep it warm. Since carbon dioxide levels are rising in the atmosphere, it’s not allowing most of the ultraviolet rays to leave out of the earth which is causing the planet to extremely heat up.

Some of the biggest drops were in the seas near China and Japan, where fish populations dropped by as much as 35 percent from 1930 to 2010 (Rice, 2019) and almost all of our commercial seafood comes from Asian countries which if it happens to decline, western countries will have to increase seafood prices since fish will be limited. Plus, if seafood companies can’t catch anything in the seas they’ll end up losing their companies. To sum everything up, the message is that everyone should take into consideration the actions that are made and how it will affect marine life and how it can be improved.

Citation:

Rice, Doyle. “Fish Are in Hot Water: Climate Change Shrinking Fish Populations
Worldwide, Study Says.” USA Today, Gannett Satellite Information Network, 1 Mar. 2019, www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/02/28/climate-change-shrinking-fish-population-worldwide/3018540002/.