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predators towards various fish and shipwrecks. They are commonly found accompanied by the pilot fish. They are endangered by overfishing for their fins for shark fin soup. Basking Shark- Cetorhinus Maximus Found in the coastal pelagic zone, the basking shark is a filter feeding animal that eat shrimps and other small crustacean. They are the 2nd largest fish that grow up to 39 feet. Although these animal are very large in…

Introduction. Sharks have been around for hundreds of millions of years Subclass Elasmobranchii: Sharks and Rays are classified in the Kingdom Animalia, Phylum Chordata, Class Chondrichthyes(Greek, chondr- 'cartilage', ichthys 'fish'), and Class Elasmobranchii. Elasmobranchs are fish which all share one main characteristic: cartilaginous skeletons. There are over 1,000 species of elasmobranchs ranginging from great white sharks, to spotted rays to sawfish to skates. Sharks and rays are the…

In modern-day Scandinavia, people use the marine environment as an important part of their life. From large oil rigs to small fishing villages, Scandinavians uilizedt the marine environment that surrounds them. I know this quite well, from experience. My paternal grandmother was raised on a small island and fishing village off the cost of northern Norway, called Sommarøy, near Tromsø. Her father was a fisherman and her mother was a Sami from Finnmark, which also lived off the sea. From her, I…

The salmon leukemia virus is one that attacks the immune system and slowly causes the fish to die of other causes. This disease prevents the fish from fighting any other disease it might catch and begins to deteriorate the internal organs. Alex Morton began to show her findings that these fish from the Frasier River contained the virus and she was able to trace them back to the farms she soon became ostracized and put on gag order. To protect the interest of the salmon farm industry the…

Tiger Sharks Controlling Marine Population The Galeocerdo Cuvier or the Tiger Shark is one of the highest predators in the marine wood web. As a tertiary consumer, it has the widest variety in its diet including Dolphins, small sharks, large fish and garbage. They are frequently found throughout tropical waters and tend to stay in deeper areas of the ocean. They are impressive hunters with keen eyesight and smell. Their teeth are shaped specifically to break sea turtle shells with sharp,…

Overfishing is, very simply, catching a large amount of fish so rapidly that the population cannot reproduce fast enough to replace those being caught. Signs of overfishing can go back as early as the 1600’s. In Medieval times a pair of fishing boats would drag a net between the two of them catching everything in its path. During the 1800’s, when humans needed blubber for oil lamps, they killed off a huge population of whales. In California, the herring, cod, and sardine population began to go…

This disease prevents the fish from fighting any other disease it might catch and begins to deteriorate the internal organs. To protect the interest of the salmon farm industry the government allows the farms to keep the information pertaining to the salmon confidential. Farms just poor out disease and pathogens and wild fish just swim through it. The most obvious symptom that can be seen on the fish after it encounters a disease is a sea lice, who don’t naturally…

decrease in population is the increase of deep sea fishing. Many sharks get caught by fishermen who are trying to catch other deep sea fish, such as tuna and swordfish. In the 1950’s, sharks were about…

Therefore, if there is something wrong with their current habitat such as if severe pollution, an oil spillage or a lack of food is present, sharks will search out other locations. Food is a necessary thing for sharks, they tend to eat fish, crustaceans, mollusks, plankton, krill, marine mammals, squid, turtles, dolphins, porpoises, rays, seals, other sharks and carrion, which is made up of the remaining of dead fish and other marine animals that are dead. This information makes it clear that…

a body of water near by so they can get in the water to eat food such as fish. The penguins love to swim in the water. If they did not have the water then the penguins would have troubles living because all the foo they eat lives in the water. So the penguins need this water to survive.The passages “The Amazing Penguin Rescue” and “Saving Penguins One Sweater At a Time” have some differences and similarities, such as how oil spills affect penguins and how penguins are saved. There is some…