CYANIDE FISHING

WHEN DID IT START?

• Cyanide fishing began in the 1960's in Southeast Asia.
• It was a way to capture exotic fish for the aquarium trade.
• The aquarium fish trade is worth $200 million a year.

The process of cyanide fishing:

cyanide tablets are crushed and used on fish. This stuns the fish without killing it, making it easy to capture.

CYANIDE (hydrocyanic acid)

It Is a toxic chemical that, in an undiluted form, can kill a human in minutes with a dose as small as 1.5 mg.

In more recent history, cyanide fishing has been used as a method of capturing fish for consumption.

HOW DOES IT AFFECT NATURE?

• Coral reefs are decimated
• Reef fish die without the coral
• Fish that survive are poisoned

How does it affect us?

Cyanide can poison the fish we eat, and can transfer to us. In large amounts, we can even get sick.

Cyanide fishing is an example of
MODIFICATION.

It changes the way that nature and the ocean works. It is Human environment interaction because we are directly affecting the environment.

Pollution is a byproduct of cyanide fishing, making it harmful to the environment. It kills fish and destroys nature.

The future

Due to the large amount of cyanide fishing, coral reefs continue to be killed and bleached. Scientists predict that in the future, many more reefs will be destroyed unless this process stops.

-Works cited-

🌚"How Dangerous Is It to Use Cyanide to Catch Fish?" Scientific American Global RSS. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Oct. 2014.

🌚 "Cyanide: An Easy but Deadly Way to Catch Fish." WWF -. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Oct. 2014.