on the International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora. Which means sharks get protection from the government. Why are sharks important you ask? First, sharks play an important role in ecosystems as one of the top predators in the oceans. Next, sharks also keep vital habitats healthy being at the top of the food chain. Also sharks keep food webs or food chains in balance due to
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In “Acid Ocean Meets Clean Water” from Discovery News. This article is written by Kieran Mulvaney. In this article it speaks about the amount of Carbon Dioxide being absorbed by the ocean and the negative affects the ocean is getting from the amount of Carbon Dioxide level rising. One very important main idea of this article is the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act. The subject of these legislation is pending in the house and Senate on the measures they will take to address the issue of pollution
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The Effects of Trash In our Oceans When someone sees trash in the water do they ever wonder just how much trash is out there? Or how it is affecting marine life? You should. In 2013 Kyra Schilling, lead author of this study, was able to look at the sea floor at a depth of 365 meters, and continued to the depth of 4,000 meters. What they found was a lot of trash, one-third of the trash was plastic, of these objects half were plastic bags. Metal was the second common form of debris found, aluminum
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There is a common conception that due to species richness within oceans, species population decline is a rarity. However, such decline may result in a damaged marine ecosystem. A top predator that plays a key role in the marine ecosystem is the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna, Thunnus thynnus. This species is a warm-blooded predator that is “highly migratory species that may reach a weight of 900 kg” (Ganzedo 2016). The Western, Northern Atlantic Bluefin Tuna migrates all through the Atlantic venturing primarily
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Finning is the process they use to get the irreplaceable ingredients for the soup . In this process the fisherman “cuts the sharks dorsal fins off” and releases it back into the ocean. Now with no means of which to move or swim so they all die in the long run by becoming prey, suffocating or bleeding to death. Sharks are endangered for more than just the reason of finning but the others are due to disease and other things that are
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along the each. As the Boy walks he picks up starfish that have washed up along the shore and he tosses them back into the ocean. The old man sees this happen everyday for months and finally he asks the boy what he’s doing. “Why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?,” he asks. The boy responds “They die when they are left on the beach to long. They need to be in the ocean to live!”The old man is confused. He looks up and down the beach, seeing all the starfish that have come a shore. He says “Boy
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Markus McCreadie The waves crashed against the hull of the Defense. Rain poured down onto the deck soaking the crew. Lightning sliced through the sky illuminating the ship approaching from the east. As the ship sailed closer the flag was raised. Pirates. Captain Shark was a ruthless pirate captain. He took few or no prisoners. When his prisoners became too weak to labor he tied cannonballs to their hands and feet and threw them overboard. In his words he set them “free”, and told them to be glad
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the sea goblin.The sea goblinhas a pink skin color and can also grow to be about 12 feet long.In the text it says that the sea goblins teeth can grow about 26 teeth on the top layer and 24 on the bottom layer. The sea goblin lives deep in the ocean were there is little light.A goblin shark can use its tiny eyes to see in the water.If another creature comes to closeto a sea goblin it might use a suction cup hunting method to hunt its prey or for a defence. On the other side the angelfish
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On September 3, 1940, a bomb was mistakenly dropped on the island of Cairnholm. Due to poor navigation technology and an unfortunate storm, a military target was missed, and an orphanage decimated. All but one resident had disappeared presumably dead. A young Ed Portman found his way to the small town on Cairnholm the next day, and left the island for good. The orphanage on Cairnholm a safe haven for young children displaced by World War Two destroyed in its entirety. It is a great tragedy that
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Along the Florida coast the number one cause of Florida manatee fatalities is due to collisions with water way vehicles. Over 8 million people live on the coast of Florida and there are over 750,000 registered boats, not including the numerous tourists that vacation on the water. Manatees can be directly harmed by boats, collisions with propellers, they are also harmed indirectly, from the noises that the boats emit to the damage of the seagrass beds. The Florida manatee prefers to live in shallow
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