'Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat'
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hey! Today I finished a poster I was working on about inhumane fishing and it's effects on marine birds and sea creatures. I'll {most likely} put it up around downtown Asheville and thought I'd share it with all of you first!
Fact: Did you guys know that it was first observed that plastic pollution was very hazardous in the late 1970's when scientists from the National Marine Mammal Laboratory concluded that plastic entanglement was killing up to 40,000 seals a year . Annually this amounted to a 4 to 6 percent drop in seal population beginning in 1976.
Also, did you know that thousands of marine birds drown helplessly every day, for diving birds often have difficulty seeing plastic netting underwater and often become trapped ;-()
Now here's my poster......
~F. Scott Fitzgerald
Hey! Today I finished a poster I was working on about inhumane fishing and it's effects on marine birds and sea creatures. I'll {most likely} put it up around downtown Asheville and thought I'd share it with all of you first!
Fact: Did you guys know that it was first observed that plastic pollution was very hazardous in the late 1970's when scientists from the National Marine Mammal Laboratory concluded that plastic entanglement was killing up to 40,000 seals a year . Annually this amounted to a 4 to 6 percent drop in seal population beginning in 1976.
Also, did you know that thousands of marine birds drown helplessly every day, for diving birds often have difficulty seeing plastic netting underwater and often become trapped ;-()
Now here's my poster......
Thank you Aria, I was an offshore lobster women in the 1970's and back then they thought it was a good idea to dump medical waste offshore. You can only imagine how horrible that was. We were pulling, used syringes,IV plastic bags and tubes,empty medicine bottles etc.. up in our traps. It took people like you, that made posters and raised the consciousness of others for them to stop. So Thank you I love your blog! <3 Cassie
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