Human Impacts on Oceans
Jordyn Hendrix & Joseph Putnam
Positive Impacts
Artifical Reefs
Artificals Reefs are a manmade human structure made to promote marine life in certian area on the ocean. They are a positive impacts because they provide a habitat for mirine life and show charateristics of a natural reef.
Fishing Regulations
Fishing Regulations are a positive impact because they help protect natural resouces. they also keep people from overfishing, and they are needed to conserve and improve the fish population.
Marine Resouce Conservation
Marine Resource Conservation is important to the ocean because it protects ecosystems, and prevents human-caused damage. It also restores damage marine ecosystem.
Nagative Impacts
Oil Spills
Oil Spills are a nagative impact because when the oil is spilled in the the ocean some of the oil stops floating the the suface and eventually sinks to the bottom and destroys the marine life ecosystems. The oil does this by killing or contaminating many fish and smaller organisms that are links to the food chain.
Pollution
Ocean Poillution is a nagative Impact because it effects the food chain, disrupts the cycle of cloral reefs, and depletes oxygen content in the water. It also kills many of the fish and many other organisms that live in the ocean.
Over Fishing
Over Fishing is a nagative impact because it affects the balance of marine life in the ocean. It also affects the food chain and destroys the habitat for many aquatic species. Many fish are caught over the year and are used as a souce of protien for human, but neither do the know that is limits the size of fish in the ocean.