Disaster Management in Fisheries

2.1.11 Marine Pollution

Water has made the earth poles apart from planets. For survival of life, as we know it, water is the most valuable of substances. Aquatic and marine environments are the homes for an assorted set of organisms. Without water, these organisms would not carry on to exist. The ocean and aquatic habitats are often oppressed for these resources. All the waters in the planet are affected in some way by pollution. The highest mountain streams have been impacted by acidic rain. Pollutants are added from these mountains starting points and multiply all the way through the watershed to areas where the rivers flow into the sea. Lakes, groundwater, and wetlands are all affected by whichever point or non point source greenhouse gasses.

Debris is left behind or not carefully tossed away, chemicals such as pesticides and fertilizers, and oil-based products seeping into the watersheds from industry and vehicles all crash marine and aquatic environments. Overspill from highways, parking lots, city streets, bridges, and profoundly inhabited coastal areas are washed into in close proximity watersheds and add its adverse effects to the ecosystem.

Until something like fifty years ago, most pollution was not seen in our oceans, since it was comprised mainly of metal and glass, which sink; and paper and cloth, which decompose. Today, pollution is more able to be seen because many of the man-made objects are prepared of plastics, which are light-weight, strong, and very long-lasting. Not only do plastics as they are universally created degrade slowly, but some animals see plastics as food and gulp down on them. In either case, the result is more often than not death.

To set free marine and aquatic habitats from the overwhelming effects of pollution will take teamwork, collaboration and education. More people need to understand the inter-connectedness of the role humans play in the ecosystem. Pollution is a large-scale problem. Since this is an acknowledged fact, many governments and organizations are working together to expand solutions in combating pollution. Most of this hard work is intense in the marine environment.

Different marine regions are subjected to various and specific brunt factors. The grouping of these factors under vague conditions in the end defines the ecological state of affairs in a given area Cautious planning of all future which allows any interested group to have a voice should make certain that developments, such as marinas or harbours, are managed in such a way that they have little undesirable consequence on the atmosphere.