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Jack Zapp Asuncion Block 1 September 13, 2016 The Environmental Effects of Deep Sea Fishing     All over the world, people depend on deep sea fishing for food and income, but it can be extremely harmful to the environments that it disturbs. Ocean wildlife is disappearing quickly, and deep sea fishing definitely a factor.     There are many forms of deep sea fishing. One of these includes what is known as “bottom trawling,” in which nets, cables, and large steel plates, are run across the sea floor in an attempt to find any fish or other animals that may live there. Unfortunately, during this process, many sea creatures including coral and sponges, are killed (DSCC “The Problem”).  Trawling today also gives access to underwater canyons called, “seamounts,” which have a rich biodiversity and according to Dr. Frederick Grassle of Rutgers University, “"We know that seamounts support large pools of undiscovered species, but we cannot yet predict what is on the ...

Ronan Stone Ms. Asuncion English 9 Honors, Block 1 12 October 2016 February 22, 2011 If you’d asked nine-year-old me what he wanted to be when he grew up, he’d probably say a-l-o-t, of stuff. First, he would probably say that he wanted to be Batman. Later he’d probably change his mind, over and over and over. Then he’d wind back up as Batman. Yes, I wanted to be Batman when I was nine. Who didn’t? In 2007, my family decided to leave the US and move to New Zealand. For those of you who don’t know where that is for some reason, it’s about 100 miles south of that that thinks-its-so-cool-but-it-ain’t-really continent known to some as Koala Land, and to the rest as Australia. If you ask my parents why they decided to move to land-down-under-the-land-down-under, they would say that it was to raise their children. The public schools in New Zealand perfect if you have little kids. When we moved, I was more excited at that point than I had been in my entire life. It was a uniqu...