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The Impact of Ocean Pollution on Fish Behavior

The ocean is getting polluted and harmful for marine species they fighting to survive in ocean getting dangerous and polluted day by day fish and all the marine animal rely to fresh and clean water to survive without any chemical and harmful and toxic substances and when the ocean get polluted it's affect their habitat and deeply affecting them.

1. Disrupted Communication and Navigation

Silent damage beneath the waves
<p>Ocean pollution confuses marine life</p>

Fish communicates through vibration and make sounds to navigate other fishes and the pollution and toxic chemical effect them to communicate to other fish , pollution like noise pollution and throwing garbage like plastic and harmful toxin interfere the fish daily habitat and confuse them between their prey or plastic and effect them to their live challenging.

2. Changes in Feeding Habits

Fish behavior tells the ocean’s story
<p>Noise, plastic, chemicals fish feel it all</p>

Plastic particles and chemical pollutants contaminate food sources. Fish often mistake plastic for prey, leading to starvation, internal injuries, and altered feeding behavior. Polluted waters also reduce plankton populations, disrupting the marine food chain.

3. Impaired Reproduction and Growth

What we throw away comes back to the sea
<p>A polluted ocean is a stressed ocean</p>

Fish breeding are affected by toxic material like oils, metals these substances affect their hormones and life and it decrease their fertility rate , abnormal growth, and issues in development to the new born or fertilizing egg and can impact the fish population and even survival very badly.

4. Increased Stress and Aggression

Marine life deserves clean waters
<p>Beneath the surface, pollution speaks</p>

Pollution not just effect the fishes hormonal growth but also increase their stress level and make them aggressive and unusual this also cause their immune system to weakens and decrease their surviving rate and the pollution cause their habitat to hard to survive and became a life threating issue.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  1. How plastic affect fish?

    fish might get confuse and eat them thinking food

  2. what impact chemical does in fish?

    the harmful chemical and toxin can reduce the immune system of fish, their ability to breed and changes their hormone very badly.

  3. does noise pollution affect fishes?

    Noise pollution make fish hard to communicate and navigate

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