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Ocean Pollution, Ocean Garbage, and Marine Debris Photos |
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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.
Pollution can be reduced a number of ways. Many communities have beach-clean-up days. Recycling reduces the amount of trash that is available to go into the ocean. Care should be taken to make sure that oil from cars, suds from washing, and other pollutants do not go down your storm drain. Any landscaping should be protected until it is stable so that silt does not get washed into rivers and streams. Party balloons should be popped and never released into the air.
Always pick up your trash when you leave the beach.
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Picture of trash on
beach. 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 #: 067465 |
Image of kelp bass,
Paralabrax clathratus, caught in gill net, Los Coronados
Islands, Baja California, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 011623 |
Stock photo of
a sign near a Seattle, Washington harbor that warns
not to eat bottomfish,crab,and shellfish due to water
pollution.
Picture #: 082953 |
Photo of garbage and
marine debris, a cylinder washed up on shore South
Point, Hawaii, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 020012 |
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Picture of oil spilling
from pipes and polluting a lake near Niznevartovsk,
Khanty Mansiysk, West Siberia, Russia
Picture #: 068832 |
Image of garbage or
debris, an illegal dump site on the slopes of Hualalai
volcano Kailua Kona The Big Island of Hawaii, Pacific
Picture #: 098522 |
Stock photo of inupiat
guide Jack Kayotuk standing in front of a test well
for crude oil, outside Prudhoe Bay along the Arctic
coast, Alaska
Picture #: 100027 |
Picture of paper pulp
mill spewing smoke from processing plant on the Campbell
River on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada.
Picture #: 024746 |
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Picture of
run off from development that chokes fringing
coral reefs and coastal vegetation, Kimbe Bay, West
New Britain Island, Papua New Guinea, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 014565 |
Image of hawksbill sea
turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, suffering from fibropapilloma
tumors, Turtle Hospital, Marathon, Florida
Picture #: 003287 |
Stock photo of Wyland,
a painter renown for his whaling walls, and an environmentalist,
as he paints a large canvas of a humpback whale mother,
calf & escort,
Megaptera novaeangliae, Hawaii
Picture #: 090245 |
Photo of algae bloom,
Eagle Key, Pass Key, Tern Keys, and Park Key, Everglades
National Park, Florida Bay, Florida, Gulf of Mexico
Picture #: 004611 |
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Picture of huge truck
outside a Pulp Mill in Bratsk, Siberia, Russia
Picture #: 068824 |
Image of a sign
asking fishermen to help the environment by recycling
their fishing line by placing it in the receptacle
provided beneath the sign. Florida,USA
Picture #: 082971 |
Stock photo of juvenile
reef octopus, Octopus cyanea, living in
empty wine bottle, Jahir divesite, Lembeh Strait,
North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Picture #: 084492 |
Photo of harbor seals,
Phoca Vitulina, on discarded tire in Elliot Bay,
Puget Sound, Wahington State, Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 076418
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Picture of Pacific harbor
seals, Phoca vitulina richardsi, on log raft, Quadra
Island, British Columbia, Canada, East Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 009339 |
Image of pantropical
spotted dolphins, Stenella attenuata, and
spinner dolphins, Stenella longirostris,
trapped in a tuna net, East Pacific
Picture #: 010884 |
Stock photo of coal
barges on the Ohio River delivering their goods to
an electric power plant in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Picture #: 083695 |
Photo of finger coral,
choked off and killed by runoff and siltation, Los
Frailes, Sea of Cortez, Mexico, East Pacific Ocean
Picture #: 005482 |
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