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Life Under the Sea
Essential Question: How does overfishing affect life…
Life Under the Sea
Essential Question: How does overfishing affect life below the sea?
Hypothesis:
Overfishing has a detrimental effect on life both below and above the sea; it offsets the marine food chain, causes economic turmoil, and is minimizing human resources.
Background Info
The Pacific salmon have disappeared from almost half their original range along the northwest coast of North America within the past 100 years.
"Both scientific reports," says the David Suzuki Foundation, "and the hard evidence of commercial, Aboriginal, and recreational fisheries warn us that salmon populations continue to decline at an alarming rate."
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- Global warming causes ocean temperatures to rise and currents to change disrupting migration patterns used by salmon for thousands of years;
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- Pollution of freshwater streams in which salmon spawn;
- Misguided government policies; and,
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What is the bigger picture? Is it local, regional, and / or global?
Because overfishing is eminent in coastal regions, it directly affects Ventura and other seaside cities along SoCal.
Overfishing affects any remotely coastal region, and especially affects places such as East Africa, the Coral Triangle, the Gulf of California, Mesoamerican Reef, Southern Chile and many other coastal regions. (https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/overfishing).
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Filming locations
Some possible film locations are the Ventura Beach, Ventura College, the Channel Island Museum and the Ventura Harbor.
How is Ventura involved?
On the coast if Ventura there is an ocean that supplies income for this city and is a big part of the community. However since fish are dying in the ocean, this is being threatened.
- Because salmon are migratory
they cross between Canada and U.S. waters and joint management has been a failure. Fishers from Canada and the
United States have engaged in a race to catch as many fish as they can before they cross into another nation's jurisdiction.