Fishing And Oceans Slides

Conserving fish stocks. Some steps are being taken to reduce overfishing. Overfishing occurs when.

Some steps are being taken to reduce overfishing. For example, the Irish Conservation box, an area of 100,000 km.sq – has been established. The box is an important spawning ground where herring, mackerel, hake and haddock breed. Fishing is severely restricted here. Other steps that are used to conserve fish stocks include the following: Scientists check the numbers of a particular species of fish in the seas. Quotas are then placed on the amount of each species that can be caught a quota is a limit on the number of fish caught annually.