Human Effects On Marine Life

Main Causes from Humans

• Oil Spills
• Overfishing
• Pollution
• Trash In The Ocean

Oil Spills

• About 760 million gallons of oil is dumped in the ocean every year
• Oil in the ocean suffocates marine animals and kills them
• Turtles and predatory fish eat oil mistaking it for other food
• Oil killed about 25,900 marine mammals in the Gulf Oil Spill

Overfishing

• At current rates in 2030 over 40 million tons of seafood will be consumed every year
• By overfishing we catch unneeded fish Those unneeded fish get wasted
• Over 2 billion pounds of seafood gets wasted every year

POLLUTION

• Warm temperatures kill turtles and fish who need cold water
• Marine animals can't get oxygen because it's too smoggy

Trash In The Ocean

• 8 million tons of trash dumped in the ocean every year
• Marine animals eat the trash and die from suffocation or have intestinal problems
• Everyone in America admitted that they littered in the last 5 years

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