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How Human Activities Affect Marine Life

How Human Activities Affect Marine Life

Besides serving as a source of economic opportunities, recreation, and food, surface waters are also home to tens of thousands of sea creatures across the globe. These ranges from the smallest microscopic algae to the biggest whale, they all have a place they call home and that is surface waters – oceans, seas, rivers, streams, and lakes. Unfortunately, these sea creatures are no longer safe in their homes. Human activities such as overfishing, oil spillage, plastic dumping, agricultural and industrial wastes, amongst other harmful practices account for the death of trillions of marine lives every year. What we fail to understand is that these...

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