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Dakota K Rachel B **Welcome to Open Ocean conservation by Rachel and Dakota, please enjoy reading. Humans have had a big impact on the open ocean. One of our negative impacts is overfishing. Up to half of the ocean species have disappeared because of over fishing. Many fishing hotspots that at one time had a diverse variety of fish has now shrunk tremendously thanks to over fishing. Humans can also have a good impact on the open ocean. We have helped keep animals safe by setting up reserves. These are marine protected areas. These areas make it so that animals stay safe from harm and extinktion. In these reserves animal population does infact grow. Thats why humans have such a big impact on the open ocean.

There are also many problems with the open ocean. One of them is whaling. This is again a problem that humans are causing. Whaling is not good. About 30,000 whales have been killed since 1982. Out of those 23,000 were killed by Japan, Norway, or iceland alone. Another problem in the open ocean is long line sea fishing. This sea fishing is causing extinction to leather back turtles. This problem could potentialy alter the entire open ocean food chain because this is killing more things than just turtles. There are some fish and sharks being killed because of this as well. Longline fish is where fishing vessels deploy about one billion fishing line reaching around sixty miles long. This is killing to many sea creatures.

There are some solutions to these problems though. A good and possible solution to whaling is just to ban it. If we ban commercial whaling people would not be able to do it and the whale population will go up. Another good solution to whaling would to put at least some restrticions on it so that not nearly as many whales would be killed. There is also a possible solution to long line sea fishing. They are very simmilar to the whaling solutions. People should not be able to fish over a certain amount of creatures. Long line fishing could also possibly be solved by banning it. There are many good solutions that just may help but need to be enforced. **

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