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If you’ve ever been to a beach, or near any source of water, you have likely heard the distinctive cry of these sea faring birds. Smart, resourceful, and adaptable these birds are found all over the globe. While sometimes a nuisance, these birds lead fascinating lives as the most resourceful species around. Habitat Seagulls are found all over the world. From the inland homes in California of the Black Headed Gull to the steep cliff perches of Kittiwakes, Gulls will nest anywhere that they…

The film “Inside the Garbage of the World”, directed by Philippe and Maxine is a documentary that focuses on the growing problem of ocean pollution due to excessive plastic consumption. A serious roster of experts: Capt. Moore (Marine Research Institute), Dan Glaser (Surf-rider foundation), Dr. Andrea Neal (Jean-Michel Cousteau), Professor Christopher Cogan (CSU Channel Islands) want to make people aware of the damage they are doing to animals and the planet because of the high concentration of…

dioxide coming from your car, the waste that is produced on land ends up reaching the oceans. Marine pollution is defined by the Group of Experts on Scientific Aspects of Marine Pollution (GESAMP) as: “the introduction by man, directly or indirectly, of substances or energy into the marine environment resulting in such deleterious effects as harm to living resources, hazards to human health, hindrance to marine activities including fishing, impairment of quality for use of sea water, and…

A fishery is a broad term used to describe any activity involving the harvesting of aquatic and marine animals, mainly fish. A fishery can refer to the fishing vessel, equipment and crew involved in the harvesting; the area that the fishing activity occurs in; and/or the species of interest. These can be wild captured seafood or seafood harvested through aquaculture. Commercial fisheries can also refer to the whole process of catching, processing and marketing the seafood for sale and involves…

Maggie McMahon APES Period 1 October 24, 2014 Coral Reef Ecology Activity (#3) Tourists scenario: Tourists bring business to many of the countries that are surrounded by coral reefs, but the damage they do is putting the future of both tourism and the coral reef in jeopardy. Most people do not realize how fragile the reef is and carelessly destroy it without thinking, as ecologists have discovered patches of dead coral in the shape of diver's footprints. Boat anchors can break off a quarter…

Key: Triathlon Wetsuit Review Meta: Standing among a variety of triathlon wetsuits must confuse and overwhelm you. Hence, to select the suitable swimming wetsuit, the Triathlon wetsuit review presents 6 attributes to consider thoroughly. Also, a review of 5 wetsuits may help you narrow down options. Intro: You may think borrowing a surf wetsuit from your friend would be fine, but actually having a suitable wetsuit would impact strongly your triathlon performance. No matter you are the…

The Hawksbills are one of the many unintentional marine animal helpers that maintain the health of their coral reefs. They prove themselves worthy of being protective, since “They are a fundamental link in marine ecosystems and help maintain the health of coral reefs and seagrass beds”(WWF). Even with being a maintainer of the health of the coral reefs around them, it is apparently…

problems that puts the environment in danger. For example, coal mining companies produce one of the topmost energy that humans use to fuel their economy (Mishra et al., 2008). Consequently, heavy metals from coal mining are the results that contaminate marine life (Mishra et al., 2008). Moreover, the relationship between economic development and industrial pollution is off balanced, because the opportunity cost for economic growth is the deterioration of the environment (He et al.,…

14 billion pounds of garbage are dumped into the ocean each year. Pollution is very damaging it's affects our ocean,air,soil,etc. So people should start thinking about pollution more than ever. We pollute and lot of things like we pollute our ocean 70% of the oxygen we breathe is from the the ocean and the ocean is losing oxygen because of humans polluting it. We also pollute the air 38.2 billion tons of CO2 is released into the air every year. We also pollute the soil which makes some food…

Have you ever consider how sea lampreys got in to the Great Lakes and how they destroy our Great Lakes? Are sea lampreys destroying our Great Lakes? If so how can we help stop them from eating fish and hurting people. Sea lampreys can be blood sucking monsters to people and fish. Be aware of sea lampreys when you are swimming or fish. There are three I will share with you today. The reasons are the food chain, killing fish and ruining people's career, and hurting people and killing fish.…