This document discusses the threats facing marine life from global warming, overfishing, and human activity. It describes how harp seal habitats and populations are declining due to climate change and hunting. It also explains that overfishing has led to a 90% decline in large fish over 50-60 years, with huge amounts of bycatch discarded daily, and 100 million sharks killed for their fins and meat. The document concludes by noting the threats whales face from entanglement in fishing gear and collisions with boats.
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2. Pictured left is a baby harp seal and
her mom.
Harp seals usual environment is 29
Degrees and icy.
Their environment is being melted
by global warming (Pictured
Below)
Harp Seals
3. Harp seals are
also threatened
by humans. They
are hunted for
their meat and
skins.
Harp Seals
5. Fish that get caught up
usually have no way to
escape. (Pictured Left).
Hundreds of pounds of dead
fish called by product are
expelled daily back into the
ocean. (Pictured Below)
Global Fish Crisis
7. Global Fish Crisis
Here is a Lemon Shark
and her babies. They
had a natural to stay in
for the first few years of
life, but it was
bulldozed to build a
golf resort.
8. Global Fish Crisis
72% of whales
have entanglement
scars. They get
them from traps,
nets, and being hit
by boats.
