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In the ocean, plastic debris injures and kills fish, seabirds and marine mammals. Marine plastic pollution has impacted at least 267 species worldwide, including 86% of all sea turtle species, 44% of all seabird species and 43% of all marine mammal species. The impacts include fatalities as a result of ingestion, starvation, suffocation, infection, drowning, and entanglement.
Pollution is not only chemical, it can come in the form of discarded fishing gear and plastics that can entangle and injure or kill sharks and other marine life. Whether it is discarded plastic toys, a Frisbee has been found like a noose around a sharks gills, or miles of discarded longline filament, or gillnets that were lost by the fishermen, each poses a serious threat to sharks and many other marine species.