This document discusses the threats facing marine life from global warming, overfishing, and human activity. It describes how harp seal habitats are being melted by climate change and how they are hunted. It also notes that 90% of big fish have disappeared due to overfishing, and that sharks, whales, and other sea creatures are endangered by entanglement in fishing gear and collisions with boats. The document highlights both the beauty of the oceans but also the horrible and tragic stories of the environmental challenges facing marine species.

1. The Oceans Glory and Horror
By Photographer Brian Skerry

2. • Pictured left is a baby harp seal and
her mom.
• Harp seals usual environment is 29
Degrees and icy.
• Their environment is being melted
by global warming (Pictured
Below)
Harp Seals

3. Harp seals are
also threatened
by humans. They
are hunted for
their meat and
skins.
Harp Seals

4. Global Fish Crisis
90% of big fish
have disappeared
over the last 50-
60 years

5. Fish that get caught up
usually have no way to
escape. (Pictured Left).
Hundreds of pounds of dead
fish called by product are
expelled daily back into the
ocean. (Pictured Below)
Global Fish Crisis

6. Global Fish Crisis
100Million Sharks
have been fished,
caught, and killed
for their skins and
meat.

7. Global Fish Crisis
Here is a Lemon Shark
and her babies. They
had a natural to stay in
for the first few years of
life, but it was
bulldozed to build a
golf resort.

8. Global Fish Crisis
72% of whales
have entanglement
scars. They get
them from traps,
nets, and being hit
by boats.

9. Beautiful
Glorious
Oceans
Horrible
Tragic
Stories