Chesapeake Bay Pollution

The chesapeake Bay is a bay located in the harbor between Virginia and Delaware on the east coast of the United States. Many big factories and many large chicken farms, and several other large corporations are based either right on the bay, or not far from it. Many of the large corporations based out there include Purdue Farms, Chesapeake Energy Corp. and many more. All of these corporations have a lot of pollution and many other factors. Many pollution factors include chicken manure, smoke from many factories, and also pollution from ships travelling either in, or around, the bay. The roles of the bay are pretty obvious, the grasses feed the plankton, the oysters eat the plankton and the fish, eat the oysters. THe food chain is obviously …show more content…
With the large populations being in one tight area out there and since our leaves are basically the world’s air filter, and they are constantly cutting them down for more expansion, they are a large contributor to the world’s pollution whether it be water, air, or even soil. Many other large contributors are, commercial fishing, container ships, and also just drop in population. Commercial fishing as we all know is a large factor in the death of most wild fish. Commercial fishing is where they take a large boat and dredge the ocean or the lake floor or just a few feet below sea level depending on what is being fished for, and they have this huge net, usually several cubic feet, and they basically reel in after so long what they’ve caught. Now many people may not see this as a huge factor, but when you have sudden decreases in a population, you either have an abundance of resources, or it was easier to catch them due to a migration for resources. “Fish are integral to the health of aquatic ecosystems, from the smallest streams to the largest oceans, and are interlinked with one another in a complex food chain with large predators (like sharks) at the top and single-celled organisms (like plankton) at the base. However, by taking so many fish from the seas, humans have removed entire links from the aquatic food chain, upsetting the delicate balance of nature. As a result, populations of tuna, flounder, cod, halibut, swordfish, and other large predatory fish who are among the most-consumed have plummeted by 90 percent since the 1950s, causing the numbers of smaller plankton-eating fish to