The loss of the whale habitat is caused many by humans. Landfills, harbors, shipping channels, fisheries and fish farms occupy or destroy areas the area needed for feeding, resting and breeding (Habitat Loss). 2. The use of marine areas can drive away the whales that would normally use those areas (Habitat Loss). B.
I believe I have an even more valid reason to skip out on the whole lets go swimming in ocean water. I call it “Death by Red Tide”. So what is Red Tide? Red tide is a common name for harmful algae bloom which is primarily found in the Gulf of Mexico. It occurs when colonies of algae (simple ocean plants that live in the sea) grow out of control while producing toxic or harmful effects on people, fish, shellfish, marine mammals and birds.
2). In Florida the Burmese python is dangous to the Everglades and they’re not only in the Everglades they are starting to move north into homes. Because of Hurricane Andrew in 1992 some of the huge snakes escaped captivity and others were released by their owners who decided they couldn’t handle the snakes once they grow to their full size (Weeks para. 3). The Florida State officials have been removing some snakes; they removed more than 1,300 Burmese pythons from the Everglades between the years of 200 and 2010 (Weeks para.
Tiger sharks actually eat whatever they can find. This is where they get the nickname “waste basket of the sea”. (http://www.sharkinfo.ch/SI4_99e/gcuvier.html) They consume fish, turtles, dolphins and other sharks, they are man eaters. Tiger sharks eat about two to three percent of their own body weight per day to cover their energy requirements. These sharks have a very great sense of smell and sight.
Some immediate impacts consist of oil coated bird feathers causing birds to lose their buoyancy and the ability to regulate body temperature. Mammals could have ingested oil which causes ulcers and internal bleeding. Sea turtles were covered in oil and dead and dying deep sea corals were discovered seven miles from the Deepwater Horizon well. Amore long term but serious effect is that the BP oil spill hit at the peak of breeding season for many species
“Whale Wars” is a show about a conservation society who protects whales in the southern ocean from the Japanese Whaling Fleet who hunts whales to sell the meat illegally on the Japanese Market. The Fin Whale is located worldwide from the North Pacific to the Southern Pacific to the Indian, Mediterranean and the Arctic Oceans as well as the Southern Antarctic (WWF, 2007). The Pelagic Zone is where the Fin Whale lives and is a coastal species sometimes living in shallow waters(WWF, 2007). It feeds through the baleen plates in taking large amounts water filtering it through its mouth to in take fish, krill and squid(Harrison, 2005). When it feeds on schools of fish it often lunges sideways in taking the school within several lunges.
Whale populations dwindled, so whalers looked towards rorquals (baleen whales), but they swam too fast to be caught by rowed boats and they sank when they died. The development of the harpoon cannon allowed a way so rorquals could be killed consistently. Norwegians refined this technology and developed a way of keeping the whales afloat by injecting compressed air into them (McNeill). The profit from hunting these whales was mainly from the whale oil; the oil from the rorquals could be made into margarine and into soap. A by-product of boiling the whale blubber into oil was “glycerin, needed for nitroglycerin which is used in dynamite,” so with the arms
The four countries under this treaty are the U.S.,Japan, Great Britain and Russia. Throughout the 1750’s and 1911, a single fur coat could bring in 1,125 dollars. Although most of the poaching of sea otters has subsided, other factors have come into play (Fernandez, James). Pollution of kelp forests and oil spills are extreme threats to sea otters. Since the sea otter spends most of its life in the water, thousands are killed by oil spills.
Shark poaching is a big concern because it affects the future of sharks and their place of living. Poaching is the process where people get rich by catching sharks on long lines, cutting their fins off, and then dumping the remaining body of the shark back into the ocean to suffocate and bleed to death. Shark poachers seek financial gain and at times religious value, however, by doing so they fail to realize the negative impact that their actions have on the environment and the shark species. “Sharks have made it through multiple mass extinctions on our planet, now many species are going to go the way of the
The object of the trip is to look for a monster that has been attacking other ships. After a few months out into open water, they are attacked, by something that looks like a monster. After, the so called monster got hit by cannonballs and a harpoon the crew noticed that water came out of his wounds instead of water. The force of this water throws the scientist, along with Conseil, and a famous whale killer Ned Land into the sea. Eventually they get close to the monster, which eventually turned out to be a shark-shaped submarine, called the Nautilus.