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Many fishing and diving areas across the whole of South East Asia, already severely damaged from the impact of dynamite fishing, have been ruined or totally lost through cyanide fishing. Cyanide concentration slows photosynthesis in zooxanthellae, which results in coral reefs losing colour; it also eliminates one of their major food sources. [1]
In the 1960s, the commercial use of poisons such as sodium cyanide (cyanide fishing), were used throughout Southeast Asia to serve the market demand for high-value coral fish. [12] This has evidently impacted the local ecosystem through coral bleaching and the killing of untargeted species.
The longest free-flowing (undammed) river in the Eastern United States. [143] Named the 5th most polluted river in the United States by eco-activism groups, primarily in the Philadelphia/Chester region. [144] [145] 7–10 million pounds of toxic chemicals in the waterways mainly due to dumping by DuPont Chambers Works. [144] [145]
Cyanide poisoning, a form of poisoning that occurs when a living organism is exposed to a compound that produces cyanide ions when dissolved in water; Cyanide fishing, an illegal form of fishing common in South East Asia, which usually uses the chemical compound sodium cyanide
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Blast fishing, fish bombing, dynamite fishing or grenade fishing is a destructive fishing practice using explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection. This often illegal practice is extremely destructive to the surrounding ecosystem , as the explosion often destroys the underlying habitat (such as coral reefs ) that supports ...
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