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my hobby is volunteering at the local aquarium, I'm not supposed to focus on depressing facts, but gosh I somehow sure do have an awful lot of them, where to start?
there's been a massive sea star die off going on for the past three years from Alaska to California, possibly elsewhere but nobody started looking until recreational divers off Canada noticed the corpses. almost all species have been affected, it's bacterial but nobody knows exactly what bacteria, could be a lot of different things because the linking factor seems to be sea water temperature going up and that ruining their little immune systems.
the salmon aren't coming back, there hasn't been enough fish in the cedar river to open recreational fishing since 2008, and every species is trending downwards over time. the problem is the dams and the dams aren't coming out for fish, not when they keep this area running on "green power".
the biggest threat to orcas, after the loss of the overall biomass of prey species, is whale watching boats. the legal limits aren't enough to not stress the animals and pilots will flout them for money.
every sea wall somebody puts up means less eelgrass habitat for little fish, and more flat surfaces only fit for jelly-polyps. every year there's more jellies and less herring. what eats herring? everything.
plastic erodes like anything else, but when it does the particles don't sink, they float among the plankton and get eaten with them.
sea turtles eat plastic bags but what kills them is the resulting horrible tumorous growths in their bodies.
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is getting to the point where it can't be captured and fixed by sea critters growing shells, and instead the carbonic acid erodes and deforms what shells they can grow at the larval stage. the species we are going to loose from this would have been vital to solving the carbon dioxide problem.
don't get me started on bycatch
if you want to help: don't eat fish unless you know where it came from, recycle your plastics, pick up trash, don't release balloons, don't waste electricity, and for all our sakes,
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[–] cynoclast [S] 1 point 0 points 1 point (+1|-1) ago
/u/pencilears
[–] clamhurt_legbeard 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Stop linking to reddit, shill.
[–] cynoclast [S] 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
You obviously don't know what a shill is.