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Pollution Affecting Marine Life

 

Different Marine Animals Affected By Pollution

Name: Antillean manatee.
Status: critically endangered.
Where: Mexico .
Reasons: changes in food and water supplies?
Other: only an estimated 400 remain.

Name: Blue whale.
Status: endangered.
Where: throughout world's oceans.
Reasons: commercial whaling.
Other: only an estimated 1,000 remain.

Name: Chinese pink (white) dolphin.
Status: endangered.
Where: South China Sea .
Reasons: oil spills, toxic dumping, dredging, and pollution.
Other: less than 1,000 remain, with some saying the number could be as low as 140-180; became extinct in the Phillipines in 1950s.

Name: Fin whale.
Status: endangered.
Where: throughout world's oceans.
Reasons: commercial whaling.

Name: Hawaiian monk seal.
Status: endangered.
Where: Hawaii .

Name: Humpback whale.
Status: endangered.
Where: once abundant throughout world's oceans, now only three separate, reproductively isolated groups in the Pacific, Atlantic and Southern oceans.
Reasons:commercial whaling, ship strikes.

Name: Irrawaddy [river] dolphin.
Status: critically endangered.
Where: India .
Reasons:most recent threat is collisions with dolphin-watching boats.
Other: Only an estimated 50 are left; 20 were killed in 2001.

Name: Orca (killer whale) ( Puget Sound population).
Status: petitioned for U.S. endangered species list.
Where: Northeast Pacific (Puget and Prince William Sounds ).
Reasons: oil spills, pollution, collapse of salmon populations.

Name: Vaquita, Gulf of California harbor porpoise (Phocoena sinus).
Status: critically endangered.
Where: Gulf of California ( Sea of Cortez ), Mexico .
Reasons: gillnet fishing.
Other: smallest porpoise in the world with a maximum length of 1.49 meters (approximately five feet), only an estimated 500 remain with 1/6 of remaining population killed each year in gillnets.

Name: Sperm whale.
Status: endangered.
Where: throughout world's oceans.
Reasons: commercial whaling.

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