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 **Problem Statement**  If overfishing is replaced by sustainable fishing, can the population of fish became stable or not?   **Hypothesis** If sustainable fishing substitutes overfishing, then the population of fish will become stable.  Fishermen like any normal humans usually want more. With this, it means they want to catch more fish. By catching more fish, obviously they make more money. However this means that the fish population is lowered. When this is repeated it significantly lowers the population of the species that the fishermen catch. When shark was a bit more popular as a food, the blue shark was heavily fished causing it to become endangered. This can happen and **has** happened to other species of fish. There’s a saying that goes, “Food for today, hunger for tomorrow” Pretty much, these fishermen get greedy to have money one day but they are destroying their source of money, which is the fish. The species affected by this can however recover from their state of low population with one simple answer. Sustainable fishing.  Sustainable fishing is very much different from overfishing. Sustainable fishing creates a stable environment, unlike overfishing. Sustainable fishing establishes rules and laws to lower the chances of population decrease of marine life. Such laws include limits of what can be fished in pounds. Also, they establish seasons in which a species can be fishing. This is similar to hunting seasons for deer and other wild game such as pheasants, ducks and turkey. They have certain seasons in which lobster can be caught and there’s also limits on pounds and how much per day. The same applies with crabs. Once the crab fishermen meet their quotas for pounds of crab, they do not get paid for the other pounds they. Here is a law for for size regulations for Dolphin. Also, known as Dorado or Mahi Mahi. “** 68B-41.003 Size Limit, Prohibition of Sale. **  (1) In the Atlantic Ocean, no person shall harvest any dolphin with a fork length less than 20 inches. (2) No person harvesting for commercial purposes shall harvest, possess while in or on the waters of the state, land, sell, or exchange any dolphin with a fork length less than 20 inches. (3) No person shall land any dolphin or wahoo in other than a whole condition. The possession by such a person, while in or on state waters, of dolphin or wahoo that have been deheaded, sliced, divided, filleted, ground, skinned, scaled, or deboned is prohibited. Mere evisceration or “gutting” of dolphin or wahoo, or mere removal of gills, before landing is not prohibited. // Specific Authority Art. IV, Sec. 9, Fla. Const. Law Implemented Art. IV, Sec. 9, Fla. Const. History–New 1-1-91, Formerly 46-41.003, Amended 1-3-05.” // // -Florida Wildlife Conservation, Commercial Saltwater Fishing Regulations // **__Work Cited __** []
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