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| • Overexploitation seems to be the main issue – loss of fish from overfishing and poor practices can destroy ways of life, jobs, industries, etc.
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| • Marine mammals are often caught as bycatch
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| • Unregulated harvest
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| • new and innovative solutions to this problem are required to take account of the socioeconomic conditions experienced by fishermen” (Merritt)
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| • Issue of regulation versus deregulation – looking at pros and cons of regulation seeing as it costs a lot, but is significant in saving a species
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| o Regulation = politically unpopular (Merritt)
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| • Poverty and the collapse of other industries can lead to abrupt changes in local fishing conditions – may start to prey on marine mammals once their value as food and bait is noticed
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| o Unregulated and unsustainable (Merritt)
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| o Peruvian dolphins; anchovy fisheries collapsed so people started hunting dolphins; led to depletion in population (Merritt)
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| == Effects == | | == Effects == |