Sentences with phrase «pollute coastal waters»

Fish farms also pollute coastal waters with concentrated fish faeces, and they require huge numbers of wild - caught fish to feed the farmed fish.

But it also consumes energy, pollutes coastal waters and depletes populations of the smaller fish on which the salmon are fed.

On the flip side, notes Mills, some jellyfish have disappeared with little notice from polluted coastal waters.

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Conventional: Fertilizer runoff pollutes coastal areas and can strip water of oxygen, spur algae growth, and kill marine life.

As I read reports about the release of more than 11,000 tons of radiation - laced water into the sea from the damaged nuclear plant in Japan, I recalled reporting I did more than a decade ago on the many uses of silt barriers — essentially curtains suspended in water — to hold back everything from oil slicks to the bursts of polluted runoff flowing into coastal waters from city storm drains after heavy storms (the water can be pumped and treated once the system is not overloaded).

The proposed Gateway Pacific Terminal, which would transform a pristine site in one of the Salish Sea's most productive and cherished coastal waters into a polluted industrial zone, is anything but «de minimis.»

Shrimp farmers clear cut vast coastal fringes of mangroves, - crucial breeding grounds for fish - to create ponds... As rotting shrimp and food pollute the water they move on and hack down more trees and make more ponds» They also pump them full of antibiotics.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is launching a new strategy to promote the use of green infrastructure by cities and towns to reduce stormwater runoff that pollutes our nation's streams, creeks, rivers, lakes and coastal waters.