6. Many small island communities are dependent upon fishing in the waters around them. As humans have advanced their technology, they have gained the ability to
be more successful at fishing. Recently, the communities have had a hard time
catching fish, even with the great technology. Why is this occurring?

a. energy is absorbed in the reaction.

if in a given reaction the energy of products is greater than the energy of reactants it means that reaction is endothermic and during the reaction, the energy is absorbed by reactants. in an endothermic reaction, the products have more stored chemical energy than the reactants. and in this reaction the reactants are more stable than products before the compounds with less energy are always more stable.