The rapid rate of destruction is deeply alarming. Both large an small corporations are raping the ocean for profit an greed, having no regard to life its self, instead using the ocean as there own toxic garbage dump. Degraded and stripped of their diversity, ocean ecosystems are losing their inherent ability to regenerate. However its not just big business that's to blame, our carelessness attitude is wiping out 1000's of species daily.
Take the Leatherback Turtle for example.
This animal has been swimming the big blue for 100 million years, survived the extinction of the dinosaurs. We are threatened them with extinction, due to plastic garbage that we humans directly and indirectly deposit in the oceans.
ALL GARBAGE WE DISCARD FINDS ITS WAY INTO THE OCEAN !!
*OVERFISHING
*FISHING NETS/ BOTTOM TRAWLING
-Every year, fishing nets kill up to 300,000 Whales, Dolphins, Porpoises, Sharks an Turtles globally. Drowning in these nets is the greatest threat to the survival of many species. Bottom trawling, destroys entire ancient deep sea coral forests and other delicate ecosystems. In some areas it is the equivalent of ploughing a field several times a year.
(Unsustainable aquaculture)
-Shrimp aquaculture industry is the most destructive, unsustainable and unjust fisheries industry in the world. Mangrove clearances, fishery destruction, murder and community land clearances have all been widely reported.
*GLOBAL WARMING
*POLLUTION
-Another significant impact of human activity on the marine environment is pollution. The most visible and familiar is oil pollution caused by tanker accidents. Yet despite the scale and visibility of such impacts, the total quantities of pollutants entering the sea from oil spills are dwarfed by those of pollutants introduced from other sources. These include domestic sewage, industrial discharges, urban and industrial run-off, accidents, spillage, explosions, sea dumping operations, mining, agricultural nutrients and pesticides, waste heat sources, and radioactive discharges. 8 million tons of toxic waste is dumped illegally into the sea.
There are always solutions and measures necessary to create sustainable oceans.
World wide governments need to come together to address this massive problem facing the marine world. because what happens underwater affects everything above the water.