Human Impact on Ocean

Wildlife

Group 1 Pollution

1- what happened to animals after the big oil

spill? Birds can get their feathers
2- How long does it take for plastic to break
down?

3- How does plastic litter in the ocean affect

the wildlife?
Plastics make up about 60% of marine debris,
with an estimated 100,000 marine mammals and
turtles killed by plastic litter every year
around the world. An animal killed by swallowing
plastic will decompose long before the plastic
does, leaving the plastic free to kill again.

What are 3 types of ocean based

tourist activities? snorkeling,
diving, cruises

Group 2 Tourism

Provide examples of how human

activities are damaging reef
systems - over-fishing, marine
pollution, coastal development,
watershed pollution, tourism
3) How are tourist activities
around water affecting the food
web? The oil waste from the leisure
vehicles can kill animals, which affect
everything else. Also, the constant
human activity from diving and swimming
and motorised vehicles can scare animals
away, effecting the whole food web.

Define overfishing

Group 3 Overfishing

Catching too much fish for the system to support leads to

an overall degradation to the system non-sustainable use of
the ocean -overfishing.org
How is overfishing affecting the food web?
Overfishing will break the food web, consequences will
ripple up and down to all living organisms in the chain
List three interesting statistics
If continued, overfishing will result in there being no more
seafood in our oceans by 2048
Up to of what is caught in fishing nets is discarded.
13.5% of Australias fish stocks are overfished and the
status of 28% is not known.