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Oil Spills
In 2007, an oil tanker crashed into San Fransisco Bay, Spilling over 58,000 gallons of pure fuel into thousands of animals habitat. This affected many marine animals such as harbor seals, birds, and many more.
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Killer sleeper sharks? sleeper sharks could be behind attacks on protected stellar sea lions.While, pacific sleeper sharks are usually seen as a slow moving, scavenger species,scientists believe that they may be praying on sea lions in the gulf of Alaska. | shootings of sea lions San diego is seeing a spike in wild sea lions with gun shot wounds, and one local group has started to make a change. | Marine Mammal Center The approximate population of sea lions is now up to 238,000 thanks to The Marine Mammal Center in California Which has rehabilitated, protected, and saved countless marine animals. |
Killer sleeper sharks?
shootings of sea lions
Marine Mammal Center
Fishing Nets
Entanglement from fishing nets or other debris can lead to suffocation, starvation, drowning, undernourishment, or other serious injury.
The deaths of two new zealand sea lions inside fishing nets designed to help them escape has prompted calls for better protection of the critically endangered species
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Greenland KillersGreenlandic whalers killed at least eight humpback whales, and in doing so violated conditions of their permit to kill whales because the season hadn't started yet. | Fishing Nets Hundreds of humpback whales die due to abandoned fishing nets every year. | Humpback Quota The International Whaling Commission (IWC) sadly handed Greenland a quota to kill nine humpbacks every year from the population that winters in the Caribbean and summers in new England and Greenland. |
Greenland Killers
Greenlandic whalers killed at least eight humpback whales, and in doing so violated conditions of their permit to kill whales because the season hadn't started yet.
Fishing Nets
Humpback Quota
Marine Debris
Many marine animals ingest debris they mistake for food, this causes thousands of deaths each year. This can cause malnourishment and/or starvation in animals because the debris in there stomach tricks them into thinking that they are full so they stop eating which causes these animals to not retain the necessary minerals and nutrients they would normally get from food.
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Endangered Manatees?Early next year the agency will be expected to make a decision on whether to strip the manatee of its “endangered” label. | Manatee Protection West Indian Manatees in the United States are protected under federal law by the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, and the Endangered Species Act of 1973.These acts make it illegal to harass, hunt, capture, or kill any endangered marine animal in the United States. | Entanglement Many manatees die, or are seriously injured because of becoming entangled in fishing nets, ropes, and etc. |
Endangered Manatees?
Early next year the agency will be expected to make a decision on whether to strip the manatee of its “endangered” label.
Manatee Protection
Entanglement
Australian Plastic Pollution
