Conservation Of The Aquatic Ecosystem
Published on Nov 19, 2015
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MAIN POINTS OF WATER CONSERVATION
- Restoring damaged or destroyed terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems
- Maintaing diversity in a population
- Keeping drinking water clean
- Reducing the amount of pollution in the water
- Reduce over harvesting of a species
Photo by Wendy Piersall
MAINTAINING DIVERSITY IN A POPULATION
- Must be able to migrate to mating spots every season
- The offspring that are the most fit will survive
- If there is chemical pollution it can result in death, or genetic mutations
- Most fish die with from genetic mutations; they cant adapt to survive
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KEEPING DRINKING WATER CLEAN
- Without clean drinking water, people risk getting sick or can die
- To maintain healthy water to be processed, the ecosystem needs to be maintained
- In 3rd world countries, having clean drinking water is rare, which results in sickness for example.
- By air, and water pollution, drinkng water sources can become stagnent and undrinkable
- By taking steps to conserve the aquatic ecosystem and water, there wouldn't be a sustainable ecosystem.
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WATER POLLUTION
- It is caused when chemicals, or hard metals leach their way into the water
- When a body of water is polluted, it can cause a fish kill
- Many things can cause pollution, chemicals being poured down drains being a big non-direct cause
- Lakes/ponds that are polluted cannot sustain a healthy environment for any living creature
- Most polluted water will be covered in green algae from fertilizers
Photo by Raoul Pop
OVER HARVESTING
- Can diminish the diversity of the species if not bred properly
- Can make certain fish species weak when released into the wild
- Over harvesting can cause a collapse in an entire industry.
- Over harvesting fish is when someone exceeds the maximum yield of harvesting
- This results to low species numbers, and can make a species collapse possibly
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