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Veronica E.

The Human Impact of Oil Spills

How would you like to have an oil spill pollute the ocean shoreline? Well there are many places that have and or had an oil spill. Oil spills not only contaminate the water but also harm the animals in the water. Many animals such as birds and fish have died because of oil spills. People may have cleaned up the water but many effects happen after its cleaned up, such as fish eat the oil and birds and people eat the fish. So overall everything is effected after an oil spill. That is why we have to be very careful when comes to oil.

Ocean Shore Problem, With a Possible Solution  Sea Urchins



As you know, there is a lot of pollution, over fishing, and contaminant in the waters of our ocean shores. One particular problem you might not be aware of is the problem of over fishing sea urchins! This is a big problem in California and Maine. You see, in Japan sea urchins are a delicacy, and because the Japanese have been fishing for sea urchins in their own ocean shore waters for thousands of years, the population has gone down.

That brings us to where we are now, the U.S. fishing for sea urchins and exporting them to Japan. Fishing sea urchins for Japan causes problems in our own waters. According to scientists, coral reefs that were once covered with sea urchins are now almost completely bare. Also, these sea urchins are being harvested before they can lay their eggs, also causing the population to go down.

One way we can help the sea urchin population is to limit the number of licenses for sea urchin divers that are given out in every state. California has already done this. Their limit for licensed sea urchin divers is 500, compared to Maine who doesn’t have this law. Maine’s number of licensed sea urchin divers is 2000, and is still growing.

Pollution

There are many problems that humans cause to pollute the ocean and washes up on the shore. There is all kind of pollution but the one that is the most common is the garbage. There many garbage washed up on the ocean shore. 80% of the garbage is plastic. Like plastic bags, balloons, plastic water bottle, ring, and many more. Many animals get hurt from these plastic. There is more garbage that people leave at beaches like batteries.

To solve this problem people have to recycle all they can recycle, they also reuse the water bottles. People have to not let go of their balloons at wedding. If people do all these stuff may be the shores will be uncontaminated; and less animals will be harmed by the garbage we dump.

Beached Whales

Beached whales come up to the shore from time to time. People come to the beaches to help the remaining beached whales return to the sea. Many may die but some return to the sea. This helps sustain the declining whale population. This is just one of the positive impacts people have on the ocean shore. It usually takes a couple of hours to return a whale to the sea, it also depends on how heavy the whale is and how many volunteers there are.

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