Due to the high seafood demand of humans, our ocean is now in a huge crisis. Fishes are threatened to commercial extinction; their amount is too few and with no chance of recovering to a sufficient number to survive. If continued, this will lead to a total extinction of the fish.
It is going to cause a chaos to the food chain, and to the order of lives on Earth in the long run. The rapidly-declining number of fishes in the sea is caused by the advanced fishing methods nowadays. Fishes are caught in unsustainable methods and thus the increasing amount of by-catch. All of the massive catching is hurting our ocean’s ecosystem. People are increasing their demands, without any awareness that the sea is not infinite. The fishes in the sea were abundant, but not anymore. They are overfished now.
My posters revolve around the Blue Fin Tuna, as it is the species on high demand. Their amount was abundant, however it is drastically depleting now as people around the world savor its wonderful taste; and not to mention its nutrition. In order to survive, however, Blue Fin Tuna needs a big school of its species. If we keep fishing in a large-scale, how are they going to survive? Moreover, if one population is gone, the whole food-chain will be affected. It is important that people are aware of this, as if continued, the terrible impact will come and get us as the highest predator on earth.
One of the scariest outcome of overfishing would be the reversing food chain. The Bluefin Tuna who feeds on jellyfishes might be eaten by the jellyfishes if the number of population became reversed. Would it be until the edge of their extinction that we start sustaining a species? By then, how do we expect them to survive?
Remember that we are not the only creature on earth who feeds on the Bluefin Tuna. There are other predators in the sea whose survival also depend on them. If we do not start sustaining them now, once again, how are they expected to survive?
The idiom “there are plenty of fish in the sea” is a generally-known phrase, which means there are still other options. Unfortunately there are no longer plenty of fish in the sea. Branching out from this concept, I researched other sea-relating idioms. “Fish out of water” which means an uncomfortable situation. “Keep your head above water” which means to survive. Those three idioms mentioned are reverse-related to overfishing. First, there are no longer plenty of fish in the sea. Second, it is not fish out of water, but water out of fish, literally. Third, we shall not keep our head above water to survive, we shall see what’s going on with our sea, get our head inside the water and take action.
It is not fish out of water. It is water out of fish.
There are no longer plenty of fish in the sea.
Do not keep your head above water. See what's happening under!
