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Give reasons: Continental shelf provides good fishing ground.

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Continental shelf provides good fishing ground.

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They are shallower, thus enables sunlight to penetrate through the water. This encourages abundant growth of grass, sea weeds and plankton. Hence these zones become the richest fishing grounds in the world, e.g. The Grand Banks of Newfoundland

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