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northwest’s waterways. These farmed salmon “bring with them pollution, virus and parasite amplification” (Flat and Ryan). They compete with native salmon for food and spawning grounds. It is ironic that Atlantic salmon can be raised in the Pacific Ocean. A species that is non-native and poses a serious threat to our native populations. A problem that affects more than just fish, but wildlife, plants, humans and the whole world is climate change. Climate change ultimately impacts water…

In Jack London’s philosophical adventure novel , SeaWolf, portrays a protagonist known as Humphrey Van Weyden.This philosophical adventure expresses the emotions of ambition, survival , and dominance. Humphrey Van Weyden is a survivor of an ocean collision who involuntarily ended up on a new ship known as, The Ghost , under the dominance of Capitan Wolf Larsen. Eventually Van Weyden and Wolf Larsen along with the only female Maud Brewster wash up on an island due to the fact that the Ghost had…

Adventure to Laura’s Tower The hot, muggy and stagnant air that, on some days, leaves one breathless and immobile in the mid-summer of Berkshire County, had finally been extracted. Soothing winds and scents of the damp autumn had begun earlier than usual. The trees, which had covered themselves in golden and scarlet, were completely still that morning in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. My boyfriend, Pauly, and I had decided it was a flawless fall day to go on an adventure. As we arrived at the…

Genetic parentage in New Zealand King Shag (Leucocarbo carunculatus) in Marlborough Sound- Sally Tang 13215472, Massey University Introduction The New Zealand King Shag Leucocarbo carunculatus, also known as the rough-faced shag, is an endemic species to New Zealand and can be considered one of the world’s rarest sea birds. They are large, black-and-white cormorant with a metallic blue sheen and are distinguishable by their yellow/orange caruncles above the base of their bill. They are…

Moana is a curious young girl who is raised on Motunui Island. She is drawn to the ocean as soon as she can walk and has a connection with it, the ocean makes way for her as to protect her and draw her closer in. The movie starts off with Moana’s grandmother, aka “the crazy island lady” as she refers to herself and she is telling a story which appears to be a legend to young children. It’s about the trick playing demigod Maui who stole the Mother Island Te Fiti’s heart thousands of years ago.…

fish come to the surface and "gulp" air that is directed via this duct into the swim bladder. b) In other fishes, including all of those that live deep in the ocean, fishes have a special gas gland and rete mirabile, within the wall of the swim bladder, which is called a “physoclistous” swim…

What is Oil Pollution? Oil pollution refers to the release of oil into the ocean. The source of the oil is more often than not due to human activity. The term is usually used to refer to oil pollution in the oceans but can also refer to oil pollution on land. Why is Oil Insoluble in Water? Oil is composed of hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons are insoluble in water because water is a polar molecule and hydrocarbons are non-polar. The general dissolving rule is that ‘like dissolves in like’, since…

Culture Shock Whenever people travel overseas, they are like “a fish out of water”. Like the fish, they have been swimming in their own culture all their lives. A fish does not consider what water it is in. Likewise, people often do not think too much about culture they are raised in. Sadly, when people enter a new culture, they may feel like a fish out of water because everything (weather, landscape, language, food, dress, social roles, values, customs and communication) becomes totally…

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 Diamond Fish There was once a poor man and a poor woman who had nothing but a Little house, and who earned their bread by fishing, and always Lived from hand to mouth. But it came to pass one day when the man Was sitting by the water-side, and throwing his net, that he got out A fish entirely of diamond. As he was looking at the fish, full of Astonishment, it began to speak and said listen fisherman, if you will throw me back again into the water, I will change your little house into a…