Fish In Puget Sound Are Dying

If you’ve gone to Puget Sound you know what I’m talking about when I say that it is not the cleanest place. It’s getting more and more polluted everyday. Pollution is affecting food chains and sea life plus its habitat. A lot has changed in Puget Sound’s last 100 years. Fish in Puget Sound are dying.

Small fish are important because they are food for a lot of species. It says on the Seattle Aquarium website that a tufted puffin can hold up to 5 to 20 small fish in their bills. Hermit crabs eat almost everything they see including SMALL FISH. Since Puget Sound is becoming more and more polluted everyday that’s killing small fish and hurting species that eat them. And without food there aren’t a lot of ways to live.

It depends on what kind of fish it is to know what it’s eating. It depends on how big the fish is. Scientists think the most common food for fish is sea plants or seaweed. You should never dump garbage like plastic bags into the water because it could kill them. One gray whale was found with 20 plastic bags in its stomach.

Some scientists think that Puget Sound sea level rose 6 inches in the last 100 years. When sea level rises habitats could move wildlife into a new home. Some fish could react right away and find a new home quickly but most will not. A lot of important wildlife has been lost in the last 100 years.

Do you like what’s happening to Puget Sound? If not try and be a little more careful about if you’re littering or where you are dropping stuff. Just be a little more careful to help out our environment to keep fish from dying.

 

Fish are in Danger By Shimon Gamel

Imagine this if you live in Seattle or other cities connecting to the Puget Sound people are overfishing by dam building and pollution we need to save the fish or else we won’t have rockfish, and others.

                                                                                                                 

Over Fishing. Whenever you over fish it could be fishing, pollution and dam building. Did you know that Washington State has dropped 20% of orcas?

Over fishing can be pollution and dam building to. Dam building is really bad For example, they are stuck and can’t get out. Salmon have dropped a lot for decades because of overfishing and pollution. Puget Sound rockfish have died because of overfishing and pollution.

Overfishing has been happening for decades. For decades rockfish died because pollution and overfishing. Chinook Salmon have been dying for decades.

Photograph By, Jose Luis 

SELF-REFLECTION

I think i did good on my over fishing report because i spent a lot if time on it. I think i did well  because it is long and good. All my things are organized and good.

I think i could do more for my next report. I want to try to do it all by myself. I  think that  if i did one report in class the next one i could do by myself.

Endangered Animals By: Emma Yagolnitser

     Imagine this someone us eating a bar on the sidewalk then when they are done the just throw it on the ground. The next day they are running on the beach and they see their wrapper, but instead a fish has eaten it and now it is dead.

      There are many endangered animals. Bobcat’s food is slowly disappearing and on top of that they are also being hunted. Pocket Gophers are very rare in North America. Berg says “Ranchers say there are more pocket gopher than the government sees. Most of those animals are endangered because of pollution in the woods.

     There are many causes for endangerment. Most animals became endangered because of the chemicals in the streams that they drink from.  A lot of fish become endangered because of the soap and oil in their body of water.  Some fish are endangered because they taste good like salmon. Some fish are endangered because we are fishing in a certain way like dynamite fishing.

    How can we help the endangered animals? If people use car washes instead of their driveway then the soap goes into somewhere where it won’t flow into the ocean. We can also stop using chemicals for our yards because it will flow to the ocean.  If we plant certain plants like Aloe, Gerber Daisy, and Snake plant that help the environment then there will be less pollution in people’s yard. People need to stop putting stuff on the street it flows to the nearest body of water. National Wildlife Federation (NWF) helped cut down on mercury pollution. They also brought Wild Bison back to their home. They also eliminated conflict between domestic and wild Bighorn sheep. NWF has successfully blocked three of six terminals.

    There is still hope in helping these animals. We can solve these problems by picking up litter and pet waste. Cattle men association says “the number of wolves overall should be capped.” Biologists say “Pygmy rabbits are breeding for the first time!” That should be normal for them to breed wherever they want.