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    Feeding fish with food scraps causes several negative impacts. It disrupts natural behaviors as fish abandon territories and nests to seek human-provided food, leaving eggs and young vulnerable to predators. It also allows algae to grow unchecked since the grazing fish are no longer eating it, which can smother coral. Additionally, not eating their usual algae diet means the fish do not accidentally consume eggs of coral predators, allowing those populations to increase and damage reefs. The non-natural food can also upset fish digestive systems if it contains bacteria different from their natural diet.

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    Feeding fish with food scraps causes several negative impacts. It disrupts natural behaviors as fish abandon territories and nests to seek human-provided food, leaving eggs and young vulnerable to predators. It also allows algae to grow unchecked since the grazing fish are no longer eating it, which can smother coral. Additionally, not eating their usual algae diet means the fish do not accidentally consume eggs of coral predators, allowing those populations to increase and damage reefs. The non-natural food can also upset fish digestive systems if it contains bacteria different from their natural diet.

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    GF All Eng FishFeedingInfo A4

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    Ahmed Mohamed
    Feeding fish with food scraps causes several negative impacts. It disrupts natural behaviors as fish abandon territories and nests to seek human-provided food, leaving eggs and young vulnerable to predators. It also allows algae to grow unchecked since the grazing fish are no longer eating it, which can smother coral. Additionally, not eating their usual algae diet means the fish do not accidentally consume eggs of coral predators, allowing those populations to increase and damage reefs. The non-natural food can also upset fish digestive systems if it contains bacteria different from their natural diet.

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    WHY DON’T WE

    FEED FISH?
    Divers or
    1 snorkellers use
    bread/rice/food
    2 scraps to feed fish.

    Reef fish rush to the


    diver/snorkeller
    leaving their territory
    and nests vulnerable
    to predators

    Fish that normally

    Feeding causes 4 eat algae are now


    being fed by

    3
    unnatural group humans. This may
    predatory allow algae to grow
    behaviour in and smother coral.
    Normally, while
    normally solitary grazing upon algae,
    species making fish accidentally eat
    unguarded nests the eggs of coral
    vulnerable. predators like
    crown-of-thorns
    seastars. Feeding
    stops this grazing and
    allows predator
    populations to
    increase and damage
    the reef.
    5

    Most marine animals have a very specific diet, and a very specific range
    of digestive bacteria. Being fed the wrong food can lead to the wrong
    type of bacteria to become dominant in their stomachs and they can no
    longer digest their natural food and could starve to death.

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