Why are the oceans in trouble?

1. Mining for oil underwater

1.1. EG: great barrier Reef

2. Pollution

2.1. Oil spillages

2.2. 18,000 hours of deep sea footage and basically found that the ocean seafloor is covered in trash.

3. Climate Change

3.1. Global warming

4. Because mining For oil causes oil spillages which pollutes the ocean

5. Tourisim

5.1. only 4% of the oceans are protected

5.1.1. Palau's National Marine Sanctuary that will roughly be the size of California (see map below) and help protect 1,300 species of fish and 700

6. Natural Disasters

6.1. Tsunamis and earthquakes

7. Overfishing

7.1. Bombing

7.2. Net Fishing

7.3. Poison Fishing

8. Natural Disasters

8.1. Earthquakes

8.2. Volcanoes

8.3. Tsunamis

9. Subsidies

9.1. Too many boats on the water

10. Pirate Fishers

10.1. Fishers that don't care about the laws

11. Unfair Fisheries Partners Agreements

11.1. Allowing foreign countries overfish in developing countries.

12. Bycatch

12.1. Catching turtles and them dying but still be twrowing them back in the ocean