Actions for Reducing Sea Marine debris
1. Why do turtles eat plastic bags?
The natural food of turtles is jellyfish. Turtles often think that plastic bags are jellyfish, so they eat them. The stomach is filled with plastic bags, causing death. Like people, if they eat plastic bags, they will not be digested.
"Turtles have evolved for 150 million years, but they never know plastic bags. Any white object floating on the water are jellyfish.”
2. Fish think plastic bags are food, and they smell in water. Therefore, both fish and marine life think these are their food. In order to eat the plastic bag, the fish swam into the plastic bag, and was stuck in the plastic bag, unable to come out.
3. When plastic bags cover coral, they block sunlight and oxygen. Therefore, a hypoxic environment has been formed, which is suitable for the growth of many bacteria, such as the bacteria causing black band disease. Long black stripes gradually consume the surface of coral and eventually lead to coral death.
