With 75 percent of our globe covered by oceans that serves as a home to 80 percent of all life on Earth, the blue waters of our planet undoubtedly need protection and preservation.
The huge biodiversity is unmatched and may potentially possess solutions to scientific dilemmas, which can never be recovered if it becomes endangered and extinct.
Overfishing as a result of overall lack of understanding about the oceans and its habitats is one of the primary threats to oceans today.
Only when seafood is attained in an environmental and sustainable should it be consumed by conscious food consumers.
Alaska seafood approaches fishing and harvesting of its seafood species in a sustainable and environmentally conscious manner.
Fish that are not the proper size when caught will be returned to the wild.
If all fisheries throughout history approached fishing in such a manner, the over-depletion of our globe's marine resources would not be in such a wary state at the moment.
However, overfishing had been a problem since people began fishing and thus, sustainable harvesting practices need to be implemented nowadays in order to upkeep and maintain our globe's oceans.
Overfishing also leads to depletion of coral reefs and alters the ecosystem, harming the biodiversity in the oceans.
While it is simply important to maintain the biodiversity of marine life, another factor is that these effects trickle down and effects animal species, including humans, down the food chain.
With fish largely depleted, larger mammals and fish in the ocean as well as birds will be hard pressed to find enough to feed on.
Moreover, fish species will slowly dissipated as many are over-exploited.
Personal responsibility and governmental management is vital to ensuring that proper harvesting and fishing practices are being implemented so that the world's fish stock, marine biodiversity, and ecosystems are not being destroyed by the economic drive to exploit these species for monetary profit.
Seafood is a staple in many cultures and a delicacy in many others.
Thus, it would be difficult to completely halt fishing.
However, it is possible to ensure that fishing practices ensure that unwanted and not fully-grown fish are returned to the wild.
If they are not returned to the wild, these immature fish will simply be wasted and a process of over-exploitation and waste occurs.
Alaska seafood harvesting practices take environmental sustainability into account so that when every small fish that won't be used is returned to the wild, it is another fish that is not wasted so that fish stocks are less depleted and future generations can enjoy the same fresh-tasting seafood.