1. What is the mission of the Sea Otter Research and Conservation Program? 2. How do you report a stranded otter (three steps)? 3. What is so unique about a sea otter’s coat and why is it vital for their survival? 4. What does the diet of a sea otter consist of? 5. Approximately how many Southern Sea Otters are there now? 6. List the steps of the chain reaction‚ starting with over-fishing in the open waters‚ that has led to the destruction of the coastal ecosystems off the coast of western
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Do you think it is possible to overuse our ocean resources? It is possible to overuse our ocean resources. We can drill and use an excessive amount of oil from the bottom of the ocean. This resource is made up of dead fish and other creatures that sink to the ocean floor and as sediment builds up the dead animal remains decompose and heat up to form the oil and natural gas. This can take up to thousands of years to form and if humans use too much oil we will have to wait another thousand years to
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but also the surrounding creatures that share these systems. The question that we want to answer is do we change our actions to protect the Great Barrier Reef? Overfishing is one of our habits that has had a negative impact on the Great Barrier reef by causing major disruptions to the food chain. A domino effect results when overfishing occurs in the Great Barrier Reef. Fishing for a particular species affects not only that species‚ but it also affects the animals and or plants in both directions
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approximately 2050‚ there will be no fish in the sea. Overfishing is a serious issue that involves taking wildlife at increasingly higher rates than the species can replace. Because this issue is hidden under waters‚ people do not realize the seriousness nor do they realize the consequences. This film highlights some of the well-known species‚ such as bluefin tuna and cod‚ which are likely to reach extinction if overfishing continues. The overfishing of bluefin tuna is caused by the increase in demand
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diminishing rapidly due to pollution‚ overfishing and climate change. I. Pollution has greatly led to the decline in coral reefs. * Sources of pollution to coral reefs. 1. Land based pollution that runs into the sea is a major threat to coral reefs. 2. Marine debris which is made up of objects discarded by humans affects corals greatly. II. Overfishing is very common as corals provide a livelihood for humans. * ways in which overfishing occur 1. Blast fishing destroys
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accidentally dumped into the ocean which kills fish and habitats they live in. Vengeance did not come with this‚ but in other hands‚ overfishing has also been a problem in the environmental threat category. As the author stated‚ “...have shrunken-some drastically-as a result of overfishing or catching fish faster than they can reproduce‚”(Dignan 14). This shows that overfishing is a problem because each time people overfish‚ down in the ocean fish can’t reproduce fast enough so less fish than before are
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attention the role of human activities in this coastal issue. (1-2 sentences) I think in the Gulf of Mexico the human active more in that place. There many factory in that place. So those cause the dead zone. 4) What impact(s) does overfishing of top
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to the reef itself strips away the home to much of the underwater life‚ leaving the organisms vulnerable. “. By reducing or removing a specific species‚ overfishing changes the coral reef food web” (The Coral Reef Alliance‚ 2012). The substantial amount of undesired fish that are killed reduces reproduction and leads to another problem‚ overfishing. Laws are in place to prevent harmful fishing. However‚ they are barely enforced. Villagers slip by enforcement much easier than commercial fishermen
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that both sides can benefit. In the VLR provided by Axia College of University of Phoenix it is also discussed that only 10% of the oceans big fish‚ such as tuna and sword fish remain (2007). This described by one environmentalist is due to mass overfishing of the fish in the ocean. The fish simply cannot reproduce as fast as the fishing industry is pulling them out of the water. The fisherman in the VLR agrees that the fish supplies could be running low but does not know how to fix the problem without
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Man created causes are overfishing‚ vessels attacks‚ human disturbance chemical and noise pollution‚ and direct human impacts. The decline of prey can be both a man created disturbance and natural cause. Man created disturbances: • over fishing • vessel attacks • pollution (chemical‚ noise) Decline of prey • direct human impacts (pollution in the oceans and imprisonment) Natural Causes: • climate change • decline of prey Overfishing One of the main reasons
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