But large-scale aquaculture can have significant environmental consequences. It can take a lot of wild fish to feed certain farmed fish. And when tons of fish are crowded together, they create a lot of waste, which can pollute the ocean. Fish farms can also be breeding grounds for disease.

Recreational fishing has its biggest impact on marine debris, overfishing, and fish mortality. Release mortality in recreational fisheries is the same as the impacts of bycatch in commercial fisheries.

DEGRADED ECOSYSTEMS When too many fish are taken out of the ocean it creates an imbalance that can erode the food web and lead to a loss of other important marine life, including vulnerable species like sea turtles and corals.

Commercial fishing is the activity of catching fish and other seafood for commercial profit, mostly from wild fisheries. It provides a large quantity of food to many countries around the world, but those who practice it as an industry must often pursue fish far into the ocean under adverse conditions.

Fishing with Nets

• Fishing with Nets. When you think of commercial fishing you probably think of big, giant nets swooping up a school of fish.
• Trawling. Trawling is dragging a net through the water behind a boat.
• Gillnet.
• Fishing with line.
• Harvesting Shellfish.
• Traps and Pots.

Commercial fishing refers to the harvesting of fish, either in whole or in part, for sale, barter or trade.

In California, commercial fishermen are permitted to sell their catch directly to restaurants, but private or sport-fishing catch is illegal to resell. Luan Van Dao and Mung Thi Bui were convicted of poaching fish in 2006.

The food system has many impacts on the environment (including on biodiversity, soils, waterways and climate change) and limits to natural resources also pose challenges for the food system.

Agriculture affects air quality and the atmosphere in four main ways: particulate matter and GHGs from land clearance by fire (mainly rangeland and forest) and the burning of rice residues; methane from rice and livestock production; nitrous oxide from fertilizers and manure; and ammonia from manure and urine.

Positive Impact of globalisation: Economic impact: Globalisation enabled greater access to technological advancements in agriculture, including high yield varieties, genetically modified crops (GM crops) and micro-irrigation techniques. Access to foreign markets has greatly boosted Indian agricultural exports.

The Pros and Cons of Industrial Agriculture

• It increases food production. Large-scale industrial farms have an advantage over traditional farms when it comes to producing food fast and in larger amounts.
• It lowers consumer costs.
• It encourages technological development and innovation.
• It creates employment opportunities.
• It lengthens food availability.

Agriculture is a significant source of air pollution. Nitrogen fertilizers and use of animal waste release ammonia. Research indicates climate change will exacerbate air quality issues by increasing ozone and particulate matter levels, which will adversely influence respiratory issues and cardiovascular conditions.

Industrial farming is bad for the health of workers, eaters, and downstream neighbors. Here are some of its costly health impacts: Pesticide toxicity. Herbicides and insecticides commonly used in agriculture have been associated with both acute poisoning and long-term chronic illness.

Two advantages of industrial food production is that it can help keep pesticides away from the crops and grow food easier, but two disadvantages of industrial food production is that some things like pesticides can harm the crops, livestock and the ecosystem around those things, and another disadvantage is that people …

Advantage: Controllable food supply. You might have droughts or floods, but if you’re growing the crops and breeding them to be hardier, you have a better chance of not starving. Disadvantage: In order to keep feeding people as the population grows you have to radically change the environment of the planet.

Intensive farming

Intensive farming meets the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) protocols so produce is considered healthy, safe for consumption and because it is mass produced it is also readily affordable. Better scalability due to the output to input ratio, farm land is being used more effectively.

Intensive Method of Agriculture # Characteristic Features:

• (i) Smaller Farm Size:
• (ii) High Intensity of Labour Participation:
• (iii) High Productivity:
• (iv) Low Per Capita Output:
• (v) Emphasis on Cereal:
• (vi) Dependence on Climate:
• (vii) Dependence on Soil:
• (viii) Low Marketability:

Furthermore, intensive farming kills beneficial insects and plants, degrades and depletes the very soil it depends on, creates polluted runoff and clogged water systems, increases susceptibility to flooding, causes the genetic erosion of crops and livestock species around the world, decreases biodiversity, destroys …

Intensive, high-yielding agriculture may be the best way to meet growing demand for food while conserving biodiversity, say researchers. Intensive farming is said to create high levels of pollution and damage the environment more than organic farming.

Intensive, high-yielding agriculture may be the best way to meet growing demand for food while conserving biodiversity, say researchers. But their study says the approach makes sense only if it is linked to more wilderness being spared the plough.

Researchers suggest intensive farming could meet rising food demand in a limited area and allow more natural habitats than other lower yielding systems. Intensive farming techniques have been criticised for creating pollution, water scarcity and soil erosion.

Intensive agriculture produces much higher yields per unit of land, requiring land modifications such as clearing forests and relying on huge amounts of inputs, which can include things like fertilizers, chemical pesticides and some might say a great deal of cruelty, particularly when it comes to animal operations.

It increases susceptibility to infection and disease, with potentially serious effects. Intensive farming practices are increasing the risk of these bacteria in our food, as stressed animals become more susceptible to infection, the report suggests.