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Ocean Pollution, Ocean Garbage, and Marine Debris Photos |
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Garbage has always been discarded into the ocean, but since the 1940s, plastic use has increased dramatically, resulting in a huge quantity of nearly indestructible, lightweight material floating in the oceans and eventually deposited on beaches worldwide. Marine garbage includes fishing nets, plastics, party balloons, beach toys, general household garbage. Animals eat this garbage and it strangles them or blocks their digestive system causing starvation. Entanglement can also constrict growth and circulation, causing eventual slow death, or trap marine animals within large debris, leading to drowning, starvation or attack by predators. Even if just attached, it slows the animals’ ability to move through the water, and animals starve due to their inability to catch prey.
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Picture of juvenile
gray reef shark, Carcharhinus
amblyrhynchos, victim
of a ghost fishing net, Burma Banks, Thailand, Andaman
Sea
Picture #: 009134 |
Image of dead carp in
Ohio. Water pollution kills many healthy fish like
this species of carp
Picture #: 023279 |
Xray photo of
a dead loggerhead turtle, Caretta
caretta,an endangered species, revealing
a large fishing hook as the cause of death
Picture #: 015779 |
Photo of a plastic trash
bag caught on elkhorn coral, Acropora palmata, and
smothering coral, Freeport, Bahamas. Western Atlantic
Ocean
Picture #: 031975 |
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Picture of harbor seal,
Phoca vitulina, eating kelp bass from gillnet, Los
Coronados Islands, Baja California, Mexico, Pacific
Ocean
Picture #: 011625 |
Image of olive ridley
sea turtle, Lepidochelys olivacea, tangled
in fishing net, East Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 009306 |
Stock photo of a dead
Southern bluefin tuna, Thunnus
maccoyii, caught in
a tuna pen. All southern bluefin tuna ranching occurs
in a small region offshore of Port Lincoln, South
Australia. This industry was initiated in 1991 and
has now developed to be the largest farmed seafood
sector in Australia.
Picture #: 061775 |
Photo of the skull of
a loggerhead turtle, Caretta
caretta. As many as 17 of these turtles
wash up dead as by-catch in the gill-net and long-line
fisheries each day along the Pacific Coast beaches
of Isla Magdalena. Turtle researchers from the NGO
Pro Caguama study are trying to educate fisherman
to the devastation this is causing in loggerhead
populations in the North Pacific Ocean.
Picture #: 026245 |
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Picture of
Alaskan sea otter, Enhydra lutris
kenyoni, tangled
in gill net, Prince William Sound, Alaska , Pacific
Ocean
Picture #: 012474 |
Image of humpback whale
with severely injured fluke due to entanglement
with heavy fishing gears or a boat strike, Megaptera
novaeangliae, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean.
Picture #: 029009 |
Stock photo of sperm
whale, Physeter macrocephalus, playing with
plastic bag, Pico Island, Azores, Portugal,
Atlantic Ocean
Picture #: 042693 |
Photo of young male
polar bear, Ursus maritimus, foraging in the dump
near the town of Churchill, Manitoba, Canada
Picture #: 014220 |
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Picture of marine debris,
plastics and net, Midway atoll, North West Hawaiian
Islands, Pacific Ocean. A gyre, giant circular ocean
surface current, brings massive amounts of garbage
and ocean debris to these remote islands
Picture #: 040107 |
Image of a dead loggerhead
turtle, Caretta caretta. As many as 17 of
these turtles wash up dead as by-catch in the gill-net
and long-line fisheries each day along the Pacific
Coast beaches of Isla Magdalena. Turtle researchers
from the NGO Pro Caguama study are trying to educate
fisherman to the devastation this is causing in loggerhead
populations in the North Pacific Ocean.
Picture #: 056728 |
Stock photo oil tanker,
Los Angeles harbor, Los Angeles, California, USA
Picture #: 058617 |
Photo of a tractor as
it picks up debris and smooths out parts of Daytona
Beach, Florida. Atlantic Ocean.
Picture #: 065866 |
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Picture of a beach sign
warning of sewage contaminated water. Raw sewage
and other pollution from the Tijuana River often
close beaches along Imperial Beach California after
winter storms.
Picture #: 067461 |
Image of a Galapagos
shark, mano in Hawaiian, Carcharhinus
galapagenesis,
with marine debris around its neck, Midway Atoll,
North West Hawaiian Islands, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 040097 |
Stock photo of beach
debris. After winter storms, raw sewage and every
possible type of floating trash from modern urban
life are flushed down the Tijuana River from Mexico
and ultimately end up in the ocean south of Imperial
Beach San Diego California.
Picture #: 067467 |
Photo of oil and
gas patterns on the surface of a marina at Ketchikan,
Alaska.
Picture #: 067463 |
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