Essays on Commercial Fishing

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The current environmental regulatory regime led to widespread dissatisfaction. This is because the centralized command-and-control environmental regulation does not offer a reliable method for determining the optimal amount of pollution or finding the most efficient means of achieving the desired pollution level. This has resulted in various reform proposals and policy changes to increase environmental quality. One of the proposed reforms includes abandoning most of federal environmental regulation and returning to the common law environmentalism. This proposal has however received harsh criticism from most stakeholders in the environment sector who believe that the failure of state common law is ...

The purpose of this study is to illustrate the role of ethics in policy analysis and decision making. What is the real role of a policy analyst? There are situations where there is a conflict in interest between different stakeholders, what should the policy analyst do? Decision making can be a really tough call to do sometimes. Should the analyst go with the easier solution? In the upcoming case studies, we will reveal the importance of ethics in policy analysis in different fields. Let`s take a closer look on some of the key issues that we are going ...

We each have a very important individual role and responsibility towards the natural world and preserving the resources that we have in this world. Each person needs to take responsibility for themselves and their own actions in trying to preserve this beautiful planet for future generations. Some people may believe that environmental protection is not their problem, so they may ignore the issue all together. These people may believe that they are only one person, and that because they are only one person they will have no major impact on the earth, and therefore they have no reason to act ...

Coast Fishery and the West Coast Salmon Fishery

Introduction History has it that the East Coast also known as Northern cod was one of the largest fish hubs in the Northwest Atlantic. The term East Coast Fisheries, arose from the sailors who had found the fishing grounds on the Eastern Coast of Canada. The entire communities greatly relied on fishing for their daily activities (Shield 22). No one ever imagined that the fishing industry would near extinction. Canadians and foreigners who had found great resources, generated a lot of revenue from the exercise, and this led to overfishing. Although Shield (23) believes overfishing was the reason to ...

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11-23-2013 Introduction Both salty and fresh water take up to seventy-five percent of our planet’s surface. Thus, if polluted, the effects are likely to affect every life form interconnected to the ecosystem. These include humans, plants, marine, and terrestrial wildlife among others. In general, water pollution results from of the emission of organic, toxic, thermal, and non-organic wastes into water bodies. The causes can further take the form of two major levels: point source, and non-point source. Point source pollution targets water pollution agents that flow directly into large water bodies through rivers and streams. On ...

In his popular essay The “Tragedy of Commons” Gareth Hardin presented a model whereby a commons, grazing pasture, would eventually be degraded and depleted. He showed that every herder with the right to grazing pasture would graze as many animals as possible for personal gain which in turn would lead to a depleted grazing pasture, the tragedy (Hardin pg. 10). Self-interest drives the over consumption of this common resource. Over the years this model by Hardin has been important in understanding the degradation of many common-pool resources. The Gulf of California (Sea of Cortez) is a body of water separating the Baja ...

Introduction

Various environmental problems affect the entire world. These environmental problems in reality are the harmful aspects of the human activity on biophysical environment. The major current environmental problems include pollution, climate change, resource depletion, environmental degradation among others. It is disturbing to note that various human activities are responsible for the many environmental problems that we face throughout the world. For instance, there are various industrial activities that directly affect the environment. This report focuses on water pollution from the industrial activities in Sydney Harbor, New South Wales.

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Water pollution is an environmental problem that occurs after water bodies ...