GROUP H Overfishing

Examine the sustainability of ocean fishing.    [10 marks]

As time passed and people started overfishing, fish are no longer renewalbe anymore.
World coverage of fish has decreased by 90% and under the prevailing technology no fish can hide; at this pace
the sustainability of ocean fishing is questionable.

The fishing industry has prospered in coastal areas with rich fish population, and with the ever growing
demand for fish, it will continue to flourish until future generations. The problem with the consistently growing fishing industry is
that if dessicates various species in an area to the point where it can't rehabilitate, and the unbalance in ocean ecology
results to decling of interrelated species too. Not only that, but also the illegal fishing industry has been prevailing,
according to the data the fish caught by illegal fishing has reached 25 billion dollars.


As people continue to overfish and don't give fish time to repopulate, the likelihood of the species being
eradicated would be hightened. That is why we can say that ocean fishing is not sustainable because at his point in time, with the booming fishing industry and the mass restaurants
that depend on fish for its menu and therefore its survival, we have already overfished those species.

Also, due to the fish farming, where expensive fishes are fed by smaller fishes such as entropies results
to decline in small fish population which is the food source for most of the big fishes in the ocean. Also, it takes
5kg of small fish to produce 1kg of big fish which is a huge disadvantage for the lucrative. This phenomenon is due to the large demand
for expensive fish from the richer human population. This wasteful practice accounts to the rapidly declining fish
population.

However, there has been various attempts to rehabilitate the population of fish in the ocean. For example, Alaska,
allows the fishermen to fish for a limited time only, resulting to increase of fish population by a multiple of 3 by a couple
of years. Also, some countries assign marine protected area which inhibits fishermen to fish in the area. But, marine protected
area only accounts to 1% of the ocean, thus, allowing the fishermen to continue fishing.

this is a humorous photo that shows how humans are the primary cause on why fish stocks are decreasing.

Geography Fun :)

Fun time with the 2nd Graders

November 26, 2013- Today, our geography class went on a 'field trip' with the second graders to the lower school computer lab and manipulated google earth, locating specific countries the kids were interested in. Our task was to pin-point three different cities in a country, and in those cities, find two significant places that our kids found interesting. From there, we were to create a google earth tour venturing those places and play around with google earth going around the country. Each person in our geography class was assigned one second grader, and from then on, it was our job to teach and help our kids use google earth.

As we entered the classroom, we were welcomed by sweet angelic second graders that sung to us the continents song. I was assigned to an awesome second grader, Keah. She was a very intelligent student that even knew a bit more on google earth than I did... just a bit. Her chosen country or place was New Castle, I honestly didn't know where New Castle is exactly in the globe until I worked with Keah. Turns out, she is from New Castle and the places that she was to locate were places she has visited or wants to visit. It was a great privilege given to us, to be able to work with the kids because it was fun, and it was a learning experience. First of all, I learned how to use and manipulate google earth, and how useful it is. I learned how to be more patient with children, patience was needed in order to teach them, because working at a different pace than they did lead to a little impatience; there were times when I dominated the mouse and the keyboard, doing the work for her... hahaha

Keah and I visited the Angel of the North, Nickelodeon Land, a water park, and many other places as as well. She is such a sweetheart, it was a pleasure spending time with her during this geography class. Thank you Mr. Barnes!

China Changes its One Child Policy

China Changes its One Child Policy

In what ways is China's newest population reform an example of another attempt at controlling the demographic make-up of the country?

China is now considering to lessen the harshness of the "One Child Policy", and allow couples to have two children in the future!! A few decades ago, the country was very strict on it's citizens, resulting into a controlled population, as what is was destined to be, but is going 'too far' as the years go on. The Chinese population now is starting to age, "by 2050, more than a quarter of the population will be over 65"(BBC). The population policy has been working to an extent that it is causing problems to the country, that's why China is considering to "relax" the population policy. There is an exception on the other hand, couples that are 'only child' people can have two children and in the countryside, the couple can only have a second child if their first child is a girl. They are trying to mend the gender imbalance as in the years past, couples would only favor boys because of their ability to work (BBC).