The Impact of Overfishing on Environmental Resources and the Evaluation of Current Policies and Future Guideline

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211020.316How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Overfishing, Liberalism, Climate Change, Privatization, Entire Eco-system, Industrialization, History

Abstract

The phenomenon of overfishing was first documented in the 19th century, when it was discovered that whale fat could be used to make lamp oil. This led to a huge increase in whaling, brought the species to the brink of extinction. Shortly thereafter, in the middle of the 20th century, some of the most common fish, such as herring, sardines and cod, were also overfished to extinction. And in this paper, the overfishing problems in Cape Cod is used as a case study as explanation. Some vicious effects did happen in the Cape Cod: decimated marshes due to a sharp decline in predators, and the economic decline of cod fishing. However, due to a series of economic production and fisheries unsustainable problems continued to arise. Indeed, the problem of overfishing was even worse and got into a vicious cycle. Not only for this aspect, liberalism also ran deep in overfishing. Along with the spread of liberalism, there were growing calls for market liberalization. And eventually, the government could not afford to regulate it and the privatization of the fishery industry grew. Privatization, in this case, had not effectively solved the problem, but had expanded the area of overfishing. Overfishing did not begin to improve until policies were introduced in the late 20th century. These results offer a guideline for our analysis of overfishing problem and further perspectives.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuanyang Du
AU  - Jiale Sun
AU  - Guoyun Zhang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/21
TI  - The Impact of Overfishing on Environmental Resources and the Evaluation of Current Policies and Future Guideline
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Public Relations and Social Sciences (ICPRSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1120
EP  - 1124
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211020.316
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211020.316
ID  - Du2021
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