The Protection Of Marine Pollution

I'm in the ocean every day, it’s my second home. Because of this, I am very sensitive to literary and other pollution that ends up in our oceans. I can't walk down the beach today without seeing a pile of trash. Because of this curiosity, I wanted to research what another type of litter fill our local ocean. Our ocean is filthy, Plastics and fibers make their way into the sea naturally every day. Apart from the rest of the trash, some of these plastics and fibers are microscopic, coining the term microfibers or microplastics. This problem is getting worse. Much like global warming in the past, this problem is not clearly obvious. As a society, we have made numerous efforts to begin to clean up our oceans and beaches, but our tiny particle problem still goes undetected, unevaluated, and unresolved for most of the world's population. So we will probably ask how are they getting there?

Ocean pollution is caused by many things,plastic,humans, and oil spills, we are trying to stop this. So many people just put the plastic in the ocean and people are trying to stop them. Two billion people within 30 miles of the coast create 100m of coastal plastic waste. We can help by reducing plastic in waste stream, and try to stop pollution. Another way we can help is by recycling (Doc.1). We cause pollution to by dumping trash and garbage onto beaches. We have to help protect oceans by monitoring the water to see if people can go swimming (Doc.2). The oceans have to stay healthy because they are a habitat to animals (OI). Another reason we have to keep oceans healthy because they are a big food source for us (OI). In

This article, “Oceans of Pollution” is written by Dahr Jamail. He presents this article with many details to support his argument. Two main topics with support are used, which is how plastic is causing a great pollution affecting the fertility rates of the fish because fish can ingest tiny sizes of plastic therefore harming the creatures. As well, another topic in this article is the dead zone affecting the ocean, caused by natural environment, climate changing the temperature and human factors. This article mainly presents this article to the government to suggest for change and to humans, many who are biologists, who care about this huge problem. With the intensity of the ocean’s pollution, the article uses three rhetorical topics, pathos,

drug residues and sediments in the field, it will then eventually runoff into our streams, lakes, rivers. Which cause our water to be contaminated and affecting our food quality and living organisms in the water. I think it is good that we have a system to take control of our agriculture but we don’t realize how much it is hurting us and the environment around us. We are not the only ones who are affected by water pollution but also plants and animals who feeds out of these waters.

Ocean pollution is a problem that can not be solved unless everyone is focused on doing so, our world will suffer drastically in the long run if we do not fix the increasing pollution, and its not just effecting the air we breath but also the food we eat because of water contamination. "The single biggest problem in reaching international agreement on a topic lies in convincing sovereign nations with different goals, opposing political systems, and fluctuating positions in day-to-day politic that their interests all lie in the same direction" (1, 106). Pollution gets into the sea from many sources but has the same effect, consequently swimming in our seas can make you ill. It costs big time to help decrease pollution and to study it. Poor or struggling nations will have a hard time affording it, which does not help because it has to be a world effort. Researchers calculated that $44 million a year is spent just protecting aquatic species from nutrient pollution, still there is so much pollution.

Ocean Conservancy is a non profit organization that works to reduce the ocean pollution and ultimately protecting the ocean along with every life that is affected by the ocean. The Ocean Conservancy was founded in 1972, which started as a small company but has since expanded and evolved to not only fight for the ocean but to educate people about harmful effects of pollution within the ocean. In my research I found that the explosion BP's Deepwater Horizon rig in 2010, was a peak for the Ocean Conservancy in media exposure and coverage and since then has steadily decreased. In this decline the perception of the Ocean Conservancy has become something synonymous with hopelessness.

In the past, industry was a huge source of pollution in the Bay, along with sewage treatment plants. After regulations were put in place to correct these pollution point sources, local governments were required to establish and implement plans for improving the pollution from non-point sources and their impact on the TMDL. After years of committing to specific deadlines for a 40 percent reduction in nutrient pollution and missing those deadlines without consequences, the EPA took another approach, a mandatory pollution diet for the Bay that would include penalties for not progressing sufficiently. The “three recurring problems in the nonpoint source pollution regulatory framework deal with the voluntary participation, scientific and

Pollution of the environment is not just a problem in the United States, but also in the rest of the world, but there are ways of fixing this by starting small with the city of Roseville, California. There are many different solutions to this problem, for example, volunteers can help pick up the trash that is currently scattered across certain parks and areas, workers can set up posts, signs, and trash bins across the city for people to throw away their trash in, limiting the use of certain chemicals, setting up police officers to vigilate areas like parks and sidewalks, increase the littering fee, and finally, and most importantly, setting up advertisements and news reports of what littering is doing to our environment. All these things

For example, crude oil tankers accident can release lots of oils which will be detrimental to the aquatic lives, agricultural land and environments as a whole and will cost lots of money in clean-up. According to the National Strategy for the Marine Transportation System (2008) “approximately 100,000 tons of oil from sources other than natural seeps is released annually into North America’s waterways and sea lane. Petroleum products spilled into waterways can have both short- and long-term effects on water quality and living resources”. There are lots of environmental impacts such as water pollution and contamination that can result in hazardous waste being discharged in the maritime ports which increases risk of illness, such as respiratory disease or cancer, causes significant damage water quality, and consequently affects marine life and ecosystems and human

Although talks about the ISPS began early since the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the ISPS Code did not come into effect until July 1, 2004 (IMO, 2003). After the whole world saw the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the IMO realized that ports and ships around the world were no less vulnerable to terrorist attacks than the World Trade Center. The IMO is an agency of the United Nations (UN) that is responsible for improving the safety and security of the maritime international shipping industry as well as helping reduce the pollution caused by commercial ships (IMO, 2017). The IMO is able to accomplish its responsibilities by working with states, Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), and Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs) that can help the IMO develop and implement new regulations to its members (IMO, 2017). As of 2017 there are 172 states, 79 NGOs, and 64 IGOs that have a membership or are partners with the IMO (IMO, 2017). Therefore, after the 9/11 attacks the IMO conducted numerous meetings with its members and partners and they decided that it was necessary to create new safeguards that would apply to all the members of the IMO worldwide. The new safeguards became known as the ISPS Code and the goal of these new safeguards was to improve the security of ships and port facilities to help reduce the risk level of terrorist attacks and other criminal threats against the maritime sector.

The oceans face many types of pollution every day, every second. The ocean is our greatest ecosystem and out most valuable resource. A common misconception is that the rainforests are the lungs of the planet however, the majority of our oxygen is made via the algae in the sea. The oceans feeds, hydrates, and provides us with oxygen; ironically enough, despite its monetary value to mankind, it is what is treated the worst. For ages we have been dumping our trash, chemicals, and waste into the oceans with no fear or regret, almost an “out of sight- out of mind” mentality. People once and still assume that the oceans are so vast that all of the pollution is diluted and would be dispersed through out, going unnoticed. However, dilution is a myth and an idea that renders ocean dumping to be less impactful. Even so much of the man made pollution is becoming even more concentrated and have entered our natural food chain. However vast the waters of the ocean are, they are not meant to house all of these external factors. There are many alternatives to marine pollution including recycling, finding alternative trash dump sites, cutting down on harmful chemicals for agriculture, and most importantly having the ability to recognize when a problem is developing and counter act, immediately.

The Ocean is full of beautiful and amazing sea life. Unfortunately, humans are polluting the water, which is negatively affecting the Ocean's inhabitants. One major problem facing sea mammals, such as whales and dolphins, is entanglement. Fishing nets, packing strips, and plastic bags are just some of the sources that trap and entangle them, which can cause them to drown. A report done by World Wildlife Fund-U.S. estimates that fishing nets kill around 1,000 marine mammals each day (Owen 2005). Our plastic trash often ends up on beaches and in the ocean, and marine life can mistake it for food. Ingesting plastic frequently kills them. Seagulls, sea lions, and dolphins are some of the most common victims of plastic ingestion. Another pollution

Marine Environmental Ethics.-- Human actions show that our marine environmental ethics are less advanced than the ones we have on land (Stokstad, 2003). There are three main sources of evidence that prove this. The first is ocean dumping, or waste disposal into the ocean. Before 1972, it was believed the ocean had an “unlimited capacity to mix and disperse wastes” (Gunther, 2017). The ocean became a dumping ground for chemical and industrial wastes for decades, leading to severe consequences. Little attention was given to the negative impacts ocean dumping had on marine environments. While this also occurs on land, it is done on a much smaller scale. Another source of evidence for our lacking marine environmental ethics comes from the shortage

Ocean pollution is one of the most urgent issues in our world today. The ocean is crucial to our ecosystem and it is being severely damaged at an alarmingly increasing rate. In this paper I will educate about the role the ocean plays in our beautiful Earth, why it is being so widely ignored and dismissed, the causes of pollution, and its effects on animals and humans alike.

As the world develops and the human population grows there is more pollution being dumped into the oceans, causing major problems to marine life and ecosystems. Major causes of marine pollution involve non-point pollutants, marine garbage, toxic ocean pollutants and sewage disposal in oceans. From heavy metal poisoning including lead and mercury killing predators such as sharks and whales, to waste getting trapped in the digestive tracts of marine animals, this essay focuses on how human interference causes horrifying problems to the marine life, but also how to fix it. It will also explore the normal activities of people including farming and how this can cause an imbalance in an ecosystem. Everyday activities can cause massive nutrient