One major issue concerning the ocean, is how humans are distroying it another way by polluting it. They liter and things such as;monofilament, entanglement, plastic bags, ghost fishing, and plastic pellets. Many of these things are confused as by food of other animals and are even killing them. Or they get stuck and trapped by these nets and plastic bags, or even the six pack plastics, also killing them.
The National Academy of Sciences in the USA estimated in 1997 that around 6.4 million tonnes of litter enter the world’s oceans each year. 70 per cent of the litter eventually sinks to the sea floor. The worst-affected areas are the coastal waters of densely populated regions. And the damage is visible after a bad storm,in European waters up to 100,000 pieces of litter visible to the naked eye were counted per square kilometre on the sea floor.
One of the silent killers of the ocean are things such as ghost nets, Which are actually nets they use to fish but never reel them back in. So eventually things such as Dolphins get tangled in them and eventually kill this. Maybe sharks are not the number one threat in the ocean but maybe its Human Beings themselves.
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