Marine debris

Littering is a potential danger to animals because it can cause them to die, eventually becomeing endangered, and even extinct. In thean article, “5 Ways Plastic Pollution Impacts Animals on Land” by Malorie Macklin, she states quotes that approximately, 101 million animals die each year because of litter and other pollutants. Litter consists of trash that can crucially affect our environment. Whether small or large, trash can have dramatic effects to our environment and animals that people need…

People have been throwing junk into the water and it’s been polluting the ocean and affecting the animals. There are two types of ocean pollution. There is point source pollution, its pollution that comes from a specific site. An Non-point source is pollution that comes from many sources. The ocean becomes polluted because people dump trash in many places like bandages, vitals of blood and syringes. Ocean Pollution affects many animals, for example the birds and fish. The birds think that…

There is an amount of a plastic waste that is the size of this rooms that is being thrown in the ocean every minute of every hour of every day. I chose this topic because of the scale of this problem and the speed this problem is growing with. It is a global problem that affects the ocean plants & creatures that live there. So I’ve made a research to tell you about this issue. (Weule) Besides the significant damage it cause to the environment and fauna it affects us directly as well. Today…

The Cove is a documentary film (2009) that describes the annual killing of dolphins in a Quasi-National Park, in Japan from an ocean conservationist's view. The film reveals the fact that 23,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed every year in Japan's whaling industry, which is way more than the number reported by Japanese Government. An anecdotal evidence presented in the movie stated most Japanese turn a blind eye to dolphin meat. To devote the truth O'Barry, Psihoyos and his crew arrived a…

“Drowning the Oceans in Plastic” Summary The article, “Drowning the Oceans in Plastic,” by Mark Gold and Cara Horowitz is about how marine pollution is a global and international problem that costs billions of dollars each year to clean. To mend the problem, the people of this world should not litter. To begin, plastic garbage is extremely costly. In the article, it states, “… 20 million tons of plastic pollution enters the ocean each year… litter is also costly.” (1) This shows how a lot of…

pollutant has a different effect on a different aspect of the ocean and the organisms that live in it. One important type of pollutant is an Endocrine disruptor, or to be more specific: Diethyl Phthalate. Said compounds and their results on the live marine organisms need to be studied so that the level at which these chemicals produce harmful effects must be studied, monitored, then reduced. Endocrine Disrupting Compounds levels in the ocean have increased significantly due to the rising levels…

In the articles titled “After Spill, Sea Turtles Still Swimming” and “For The Turtles”, they both are about the ways that people are helping turtles stay alive. However, “After Spill, Sea Turtles Still Swimming” is better at achieving its purpose. This is shown in the “After Spill, Sea Turtles Still Swimming” by Achieve 3000 and it states, “To that end, the eggs at NPS's lab are monitored 24 hours a day. Once hatching begins, Shaver sleeps on a cot in her office, caring for the tiny turtles as…

Battle at Sea There once was a boy who lived not on land, but the sea. His name was Dubloon Devil. He was just a little pirate who was passionate about being the greatest, richest and fastest pirate just like his father, Captain Squigglybeard. Captain Squigglybeard was the greatest pirate in all the seven seas. He gave a name for his crew, The Buccaneers of the Lost Shores so they can be proud of him. Everything was all going so well for The Buccaneers of the Lost Shores. Until one of Captain…

It is well know that there is an ongoing plastic debris epidemic with an estimated 8 billion tonnes of plastic waste being dumped into the ocean each year (Walter, 2015). With the increasing growth of the human population and the ever expanding affluence of lower income countries plastic waste is only going to increase. Marine ecosystems will be the brunt of this crisis with most terrestrial plastic waste ending its journey in the oceans. The most fragile ecosystems, coral reefs, will be the…

problem – Fishnets/Ghost Gear. Fishnets are made of materials such as plastic & nylon. The fishnets do not change or degrade after prolonged exposure to salt water. Fish nets are being left out in the Australian Ocean creating damage to Australia’s marine life. The majority of fishnets are discarded into the Australia Ocean by fishing boats. The Gulf of Carpentaria is a specific hot spot for the discarded fishing nets. The Carpentaria Ghost Net Program in Northern Australia have removed over…