Ruthie Lanigan

Saving The Planet……..

My Way!

Vol. 1 No. 3

February 2013

Hello everyone,

It's Mardi Gras Season! The time for parades, beads, floats and lots of seafood!

But just how long will our seafood be plentiful?

The oceans are massive, powerful, indestructible………… right?

WRONG.

Our oceans are being destroyed in many ways but very few people realize that it's happening.

Please take a moment to read below.

WHAT ARE WE DOING TO OUR OCEANS?

POLLUTION

The 12 Most Common Types of Ocean Litter:

12) Styrofoam cups 6) Plastic bags

11) Plastic Beverage Bottles 5) Glass pieces

10) Glass Beverage Bottles 4) Styrofoam

9) Plastic Straws 3) Plastic pieces

8) Metal Beverage Cans 2) Paper

7) Plastic caps and lids 1) Cigarettes/Cigars

What else besides pollution is damaging our oceans?

OVERFISHING

What is overfishing?

The practice of commercial and non-commercial fishing which depletes a fishery by catching so many adult fish that not enough remain to breed and replenish the population. Overfishing exceeds the carrying capacity of a fishery.

Catching too many fish; fishing so much that the fish cannot sustain their population. The fish get fewer and fewer, until finally there are none to catch.

Fishing with a sufficiently high intensity to reduce the breeding stock levels to such an extent that they will no longer support a sufficient quantity of fish for sport or commercial harvest.