APES Current Events

An environmental issue is referenced up to 20 times in every newspaper in the United States. These articles may be about obvious environmental issues such as water quality or ecological issues such as changing weather patterns. The scope of environmental science can also be social, political, and technological. It is impossible to write an article that does not possess bias. As a surveyor of environmental publications and information, it is your job to read critically and recognize bias.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Bluefin Tuna, Sharks may finally get some help

http://www.enn.com/wildlife/article/41999

November 14, 2010

The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) is taking measures to end all illegal fishing of Bluefin Tunas and some sharks in the Atlantic and Mediterranean Oceans. This illegal fishing has brought the bluefin tuna's to the point of extinction, there population has dropped nearly 75 percent in ten years. Now the PEW is calling ICCAT out to stop all fishing of Bluefin Tuna, Whitetip, and mako sharks on there breeding grounds.

This article doesn't have much biased because it is mainly stating facts of enviornmental groups and their actions. But if anything it seems to be pro enviornmentalist because it is explaining the bad things about this overfishing and that these groups haven't enforced these laws enough to prevent it.

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A. Ecosystem structure

III. Population

A. Population biology concepts

1 comment:

Libby GerstnerDecember 5, 2010 at 7:57 PM
The ICCAT is definitely doing the right thing in trying to stop illegal fishing because many people do not see that there are not massive amounts of fish in the sea. The Bluefin Tunas as well as sharks are being overfished so much that their populations are near extinction, something people seem to overlook. Many people disregard the matter and do not see fish as endangered because they do not know about the ocean and the animals living in it. The ICCAT should enforce a law to make fishing for the endangered tunas illegal until they can get their populations up, and when that happens they can put a limit on the number of tunas caught per fisherman.

Libby Gerstner, 7th period.
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