{"id":9169,"date":"2016-11-03T20:15:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-04T00:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital.hbs.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/fish-in-troubled-waters\/"},"modified":"2016-11-03T20:15:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T00:15:39","slug":"fish-in-troubled-waters","status":"publish","type":"hck-submission","link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-rctom\/submission\/fish-in-troubled-waters\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish in troubled waters"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although climate change impacts many aspects of our lives it is hard to think of an industry that is more directly impacted than fishing. Climate change directly impacts sea levels and temperatures which are important factors to the overall marine population1<\/sup>, which already faces significant challenges from pollution and over fishing. With the rising demand for food and specifically protein due to population and income growth it\u2019s important to think about how this massive industry is dealing with the coming changes.<\/p>\n

I will focus on American Seafoods Group2<\/sup>, a leader in the global seafood industry, which harvests and processes Alaska pollock, yellowfin sole, Pacific cod and Pacific hake in the Alaskan and Pacific Northwest regions.<\/p>\n

Company Actions<\/strong><\/p>\n

American Seafoods Group focuses on sustainable fishing through a preventive approach. The main strategy they implement is to monitor the fish populations and habitats in their regions of operations to ensure they are of an adequate size for them to continue their reproductive cycle despite their fishing operations. They do this by employing a variety of independent research organizations to measure and set biologically safe fishing levels, which they follow strictly. By setting fishing targets periodically based on the health of the eco system American Seafoods ensures that any impact climate change is having on the fish populations is considered. The second way in which American Seafoods ensures healthy fish populations are by minimizing the fishing of protected species and fish that will not be consumed in order to have the least impact possible on fish populations. The last step they take is to set specific areas that change periodically where the company does not fish to ensure they have time to recover from any impact fishing may have.<\/p>\n

Additional Recommendations<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although these strategies are a good start, I believe American Seafoods is not targeting the root of the problem and they actions are only the beginning to developing a strategy to deal with global warming.<\/p>\n

The first thing that American Seafood needs to focus on is reducing carbon emissions from their ships and operations through technology investments to actively reduce some of the elements that are driving global warming and negatively impacting fish population health.<\/p>\n

Secondly, it\u2019s important for American Seafoods to share best practices and their monitoring and fishing target setting capabilities with smaller fisheries who may not have the resources to monitor their impact on fish populations and their environment. Perhaps they should be lobbying for this to be industry practice and have fishing targets set by an overarching regulating body to ensure all fisheries are monitor their impact on fish populations.<\/p>\n

Thirdly American Seafoods should partner with grocery stores and other fish distributors to educate consumers on the importance of environmentally conscious fishing practices. By making their practices known to consumers they will empower consumers to become informed and buy from fisheries that fish in an environmentally conscious manner and maintain healthy fish populations. They should also keep consumers informed of which fish species are at higher risk of population declines due to climate change and other factors. Doing so would enable consumers to eat fish with stronger population profiles, which hopefully gives those at risk room to adapt to changing conditions without being incrementally harmed from fishing practices.<\/p>\n

Fourth, American Seafoods mostly focuses on being preventive by monitoring fish populations and ecosystems and not over fishing. It\u2019s equally or more important to be proactive and help fish populations that may be depleting too quickly due to changing temperatures and sea levels. They could do this by breeding fish on land and re introducing them to these high-risk areas as necessary or actively taking measures that will rebuild or strengthen coral which should help fish populations.<\/p>\n

In conclusion, although American Seafoods Group has a culture and systems in place to ensure sustainable fishing, which incorporates the impact from global warming into their fishing practices, their approach is too limited given the threat posed by global warming to their business. If sea temperatures and levels continue to increase and pose threat to fish populations, American Seafoods Group will be forced to decrease their fishing activities and therefore will be forced to reduce the size of their business. More importantly the millions of people that depend on their fish for food will have to turn to other, potentially less environmentally sources of protein such as beef, which has a significant negative impact on the environment and will continue to the advance of global warming3<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

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Sources<\/u><\/p>\n

1<\/sup> \u201c<\/strong>Fact Sheet: Effects of Climate Change on Arctic Fish\u201d World Wildlife Fund http:\/\/assets.worldwildlife.org\/publications\/394\/files\/original\/Effect_of_Climate_Change_on_Actic_Fish_fact_sheet.pdf?1345753203&_ga=1.35432866.2024778886.1478201575, accessed November 2016.<\/p>\n

2<\/sup> American Seafoods Company, \u201cAbout Us \/ Sustainability,\u201d http:\/\/americanseafoodscompany.com\/about\u201d, accessed November 2016.<\/p>\n

3<\/sup> Steinfeld Henning, Gerber Pierre, \u201cLivestocks\u2019s Long Shadow: Environmental Issues and Options\u201d, FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS (Nov 2006)\u00a0http:\/\/www.fao.org\/docrep\/010\/a0701e\/a0701e00.HTM, accessed November 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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