10/2020: The Life Underwater
The Life Underwater is the third UN article after the Clean Power and Right to Life that I research.
Living things below the sea attract tourists to travel to different countries, where there are different environments and fascinate with the destination. After I read the UN goals, it showed that the resources underwater are very important to the country, in which there are territories connected to the ocean. Because the territory in the ocean can’t be divided easily and clearly, every country must be capable to protect the water territory under international laws.
The Thai navy tries to buy submarines to build the capability and deprivation of our sea power to protect our country’s underwater resources, 24 trillion Baht worth.
What are the problems?
The problems are that life underwater becomes a danger of extinction because humans make more activities in the ocean such as trade, tour, and war. The most important problem is the huge trash in the environment underwater. There are 5.25 trillion pieces of debris in the ocean including 269,000 tons floating on the surface, and 4 billion microplastics /km2 under the deep sea.
The second problem is overfishing, which is the removal of a species of fish from water at a rate that the species cannot replenish. Currently, the fish population is decreasing from catching between 0.97-2.7 trillion per year.
Who/What is affected?
The most affected is the animal (marine life). The human caused them to endanger more than a decade due to trash and un-proper cleaning of waste before being dumped into the water. For example, a leatherback turtle had never come back and spawned eggs for many years. After COVID-19, the turtle came to lay eggs 4 times this year because of no human activities on the beach. Finally, the worst pollution will be back to humans.
Overfishing destroys marine ecology and affects the food chain. Today, Marine life also has trouble with decreasing of the population after the over catch happen for many years. Most affected are the fish, for example, the population of fish in the Gulf of Thailand decreased from 4,118,527 in 2005 to 2,493,154 in 2016. The population is unable to grow maturity for the next fishing season. The problem squeezes all animals at the top of the food chain, for example, Sharks adapted their habits from attacking fish to humans instead. How to stop the overfishing problem?
What is the plan to fix the problem?
The plan is to separate the plastic products from the waste before being dumped into the ocean. Many trashes were thrown into the water every day around the world. Most trashes (plastic debris) ended in big oceans such as the Indian and Pacific oceans.
How to clean trash on the ocean surface! use the net to collect all trashes from the canal and river before it reaches the ocean.
How to clean the trash underwater! The next step of the plan is to use a small submarine as a trash collector to dive into the water and collect the trash. Lastly, we have to find all animals, mostly turtles, which ate trashes (plastic debris) and help to take it out from their stomach. Stop Smoking too!
For overfishing problems, we should make a calendar of fishing and send it to the fisherman. Every fisherman has to report every docking to the naval station in the area. Every year, there will be a couple of months for fish to lay eggs. The report and calendar will record the result of the amount of fish conserved and caught at the end of the year.
For the naval war issue, UN international laws should be followed seriously and effectively. The powerful countries should not break the laws by themselves.
Walk the Talk
At home, I have gathered the used plastic bottles and sold them to the recycle shop as usual; however, the unsaleable plastics have recently been separated in another black bag and given to a garbage collection truck, not dumped into the same garbage bag like the previous practice. Just do it!
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