What are some examples of pollution or manmade problems hurting the fishing

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industry(dont include GW)? Please do not mention anything that has to do with global warming.

please site if possible and make specific examples like not being able to fish off of FL's coast due to pollution

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Look up the Chesapeake Bay and crab fishing. The worst pollutant has actually been silt - unfiltered soil from shoreline housing projects spills into tributaries and flows into the bay, and has been a major contributor to a serious drop in Oxygen levels in the bay, which has caused fish kills and reduced the already over-fished blue crab population. Chemical pollution is also a problem, mostly through mercury vectors. Mercury is a man-made pollutant, and is magnified in amount as traces move up the food chain. People in the US and other countries have been warned away from the consumption of certain fish because of high mercury levels. I'm sure a short google search will lead you to more specific examples.

*edit* I forgot to mention farm runoff: fertilizers can cause toxic algae blooms in local fisheries.
 
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