What Are The Problems Of Fishing Industry In Canada?

Answer 1

The fishing industry in eastern Canada is best described as a depressed industry. Fishing had been an important component of the economy of the Maritime Provinces. Two factors have contributed to problems in the industry. Fishing, over several decades, has become more technologically advanced. Fishers can therefore catch fish more quickly than the fish can reproduce. As a result, the numbers of fish available for catching have declined and some species are threatened with extinction. The second factor is that few regulations existed for fishing on the continental shelf until a short while ago. Virtually no legal limit existed on the size of the catch. As a result, the fishers caught many large fish and when those were gone, proceeded to catch smaller and smaller fish. The total fish catch continued to decline.

Recognizing that the fishing industry needed to be regulated, Canada and the United States agreed to require fishers to reduce their catch. The agreement was not easily reached, but it was accomplished. Despite the picturesque fishing villages along the coast, the fishing industry still is not healthy. The regulations will take time to have a significant effect.

Answer 2

There are many but over fishing makes them all greater. Over fishing happens because people only want to get rich quick, particularly those saying they are concerned about the resource. That almost always means they want it for themselves. That's another problem, sharing the resource. There are those in Canada who, because of race, believe they have special access to resources including fishing. They also demand to be exempt from international restrictions on fishing. That complicates things even more when they have significant political power.

Measuring the resource has been and still is complicated by politics. While science is taken into consideration the ultimate decision on setting quotas is political. We can't change that but we could make it more open, more transparent but of course those making and benefiting from those political decisions only want the appearance of transparency. Real transparency would expose political powers profiting from our fishing industry.

Over fishing also occurs outside our waters. When our fish leave the protection of our enforcement and warships they are quickly scooped up by a world racing to empty the oceans.

Fish farms supply much of our market fish but of course that industry does not want to set up away from the ocean, deep inland were they would present no threat to the ocean environment. They set up along the coasts using the ocean to carry away the waste from their operations. They also use maximum fish density to increase profits and drive down costs. This results in many sick fish, not a problem for profits but because they use the ocean to wash away their waste it harms other fish and the environment. Simply requiring them to set up far inland so such waste was properly handled and kept out of the ocean would address almost all Fish Farming concerns but the industry is politically powerful and keeps a low profile by farming away from population centres.

But for all those and many other problems Canada is large and healthy, our fish are doing better than most. In fact most other countries have already taken so many fish they are working on smaller and smaller fish, soon they will only be fishing for jelly fish and hopefully we will still have some small and medium size fish.

Answer 3

The fishing industry in eastern Canada could best be described as a commercial industry that employes thousands of fishermen and women. The industry includes commercial fishing boats and farming processes.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

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