2. Statistics
● New Zealand harvest on average 409, 449 tonnes
of commercial fish per year over a 4.4 km^2
enviroment.
● Over 130 different species is commercially fished
each year. In 2009 287,508 tonnes of fish were
caught and exported.
● waters are not particularly productive but support
over 1,000 species of marine fish, about 100 of
which are commercially significant.
● Seafood exports consistently rank as New Zealand’
s fourth or fifth largest export earner.
3. Impacts of Commecial
Fishing
● In the U.S commercial fishing kills on
average 46 workers per year.
● The amount of fish significantly decreases
each year meaning soon all fish maybe
extinct.
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4. How to lower the amount
of fish caught
Fishing company Talley's Group is calling for
a law preventing foreign fishing vessels from
operating in New Zealand waters to be in
place by next year.
5. New Zealand’s fish catch.
The Chatham Rise and Subantarctic fishing grounds
provide 60 percent of New Zealand’s fish catch. Most
of this comes from areas near the Subtropical Front,
and includes the main hoki, hake, ling, silver
warehou, squid, orange roughy and deep sea dory
fisheries.
New Zealand’s west coast mostly off the South
Island provides around 30 percent of our fish catch.
Much of this occurs when fish gather there to spawn
in winter and spring e.g., hake, hoki, ling, silver
warehou
6. How it is effecting the
environment.
Globally, the omens do not look good. Everywhere,
there are signs of the environment’s limits being
stretched. The global fish catch has now reached the
limits of our ocean’s fisheries. And these limits are
being stretched as some marine ecosystems and
habitats are damaged or destroyed by fishing and
pollution.
Our oceans and their ecosystems are hugely
complex affairs, and we struggle to understand a tiny
fraction of them. So the government is naturally
cautious whenever it sets catch limits for fisheries. It
is also naturally cautious when it deals with the
