The Effects of Pollution
Endangering Aquatic Species
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.
Sea lions
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
Humpback Whales
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.
Manatees
Endangered Manatees?
Early next year the agency will be expected to make a decision on whether to strip the manatee of its “endangered” label.