Items like plastic bags, discarded fishing line and balloon strings are highly lethal to marine animals, who swim through them and become entangled.
Turtles, seabirds and even dolphins get caught in these plastic traps. If they cannot swim and reach the surface, mammals that rely on regular breaths of air will eventually drown. For others, the plastic strings may choke them or cut off circulation to their limbs.
We can save animals from entanglement by banning plastic bags and balloons, and working to ensure fishers don’t discard fishing lines carelessly into the sea.
More info: Marine conservation Society
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