Fishing

Question 0

What’s sustainable fishing

Answer 0

Fish is a renewable resource if maintained sustainably.

Question 1

What occurs over fishing

Answer 1

When fishermen take more fish than they are meant to and this doesn’t allow the fish to reproduce

Question 2

Ireland’s continental shelf (fishing in Ireland )

Answer 2

Irish waters have traditionally been rich in fish. The seas of irish coast forms a continental shelf. This is an area of sea close to land with large shoals of fish.

Question 3

What did fishermen in the past use to fish

Answer 3

Currachs.

Most of them were small and had small nets

Question 4

Irish fishing industries

Answer 4

• the fishing industry was small on scale until recent decades.
• many fishermen fished in currachs, most trawlers were small and had small nets. Meaing catches were small this changed when Ireland joking the EU in 1973

Question 5

What happened when Ireland joined the EU ?

Answer 5

When Ireland joined the EU they had to share its fisheries to Brussels. Meaning the amount of fishing in irish waters increased, especially after Spain joined 1985. More fish was also caught because there are now modern trawler which are well equipped.

Question 6

Name parts and functions of a modern trawler.

Answer 6

Sonar and Rader - detect large shoals of fish
Nets - invisible and un breakable.
Hydraulic winches - can lift large amount of fish
Cold rooms - allows them to store the fish and stay at sea without fish getting spoiled

Question 7

how does over fishing occur.

Answer 7

• too many we’ll equipped trawlers are chasing to little fish
The seas around Ireland cover a wide area which making it impossible to stop illegal fishing.
Many baby fish are being caught because the net holes aren’t big enough to let them get out which they can not reproduce