Question: why do you think fish are important?

Jenny Shepperson answered on 14 Jun 2018:

I think all living things are important – the world would be a pretty dull place if we killed off everything apart from humans – unfortunately because there are soooo many humans now, we often have bad impacts on the natural environment!
Fish are a really important food source for a lot of people, so I do think we need to keep catching fish. But, some ways of catching fish cause more harm to the environment than others. If we can understand more about what types of fishing cause less harm to the environment then we can try to use these more, rather than harmful types of fishing. That way, we can keep catching fish to feed people, but hopefully also keep our marine environments healthy!