Free Report: Blast Fishing: A threatby Sandhya Adhikari | 11-08-2020 03:02 |
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 According to Jerker Tamelander, head of the Coral Reef Unit at UN Environment, "Blast fishing is an extremely short-sighted fishing method because it destroys the coral reef on which fisherfolk depend,¡± Blast fishing also called dynamite fishing is a greatly destructive as well as illegal method of capturing fish via dynamites or any other type of explosive on ocean or fish rearing place to send shock waves through water for killing fish which later are collected and sold.Dynamites is an explosive chemicals based on the explosive potential of nitroglycerin using diatomaceous earth as an adsorbent. When having glace to the history, it has been recorded from Africa in the early 1960s. There is the huge consequences of blast fishing on Tanzania. It has huge impact on the aquatic ecosystem and biodiversity, blast shatter the coral, destroy the habitat which result in drastic reduction in catches, affecting food security. Often it causes beach erosion as the reef don't provide protection from the sea. Dynamite fishing (homemade bomb) is set off under water to kill fish for easy collection. The dead fish floating to the surface are then simply scooped up. The explosives used destroy the marine environment, leaving it devoid of life. Besides killing and injuring fish, these blasts leave behind rubble and broken corals on the sea floor, destroying habitat for all reef species. Not only these bombs kill all marine life around them, the repeated bombings will shatter the dead sub-structure of the coral and create dead zones destroying biodiversity and ecosystems by removing the main life support system for many species. This technique is not an appropriate one which should be eradicated and addressed by the implementation of strict law. |
