Pumping of highly toxic (dark black) sludge, much seeps back into the ocean in the form of particles.

The pollution of the ocean with chemicals or particles. A big problem is that much of the toxins adhere to tiny particles which are taken up within a few days by plankton and benthos animals, most of which are filter feeders, concentrating up in the oceans foodchains. Because most animal feeds contain high components of fishmeal and fishoil we find the toxins a few weeks later in our meat, eggs, margerine etc. VOK WAS HIER. Image File history File links marine pollution particles image uwe kils gfdl self File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links marine pollution particles image uwe kils gfdl self File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Particle (ecology) is the term for small objects of nonbiological kind. ... Photomontage of plankton organisms Plankton are the weakly swimming but mostly drifting small organisms that inhabit the water column of the ocean, seas, and bodies of freshwater. ... In marine geology and biology, benthos are the organisms and habitats of the sea floor; in freshwater biology they are the organisms and habitats of the bottoms of lakes, rivers, and creeks. ... Filter feeders (also known as suspension feeders) are animals that feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water, typically by passing the water over a specialized structure, such as the baleen of baleen whales. ...

Mercury in zooplankton - US east coast

Mercury in zooplankton (copepods) in the open ocean off New York and Atlantic City USA New Jersey - the source is the Hudson and Raritan - the highest concentration in the filter feeding copepods is not in front of the river but 70 miles South, because the water flows South close to the coast, and it takes a few days before the toxines show up in the plankton (map from Gerlach) mercury pollution map File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... mercury pollution map File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Photomontage of plankton organisms Plankton is the aggregate community of weakly swimming but mostly drifting small organisms that inhabit the water column of the ocean, seas, and bodies of freshwater. ... Orders Calanoida Cyclopoida Gelyelloida Harpacticoida Misophrioida Monstrilloida Mormonilloida Platycopioida Poecilostomatoida Siphonostomatoida Copepods are small, aquatic animals living in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat, a form of plankton, specifically zooplankton, some copepods are parasitic. ... State nickname: Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York Governor George Pataki Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² (27th)  - Land 122,409 km²  - Water 18,795 km² (13. ... Alternate meanings: See Atlantic City (disambiguation) Atlantic City is a city located in USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 40,517. ... State nickname: The Garden State Other U.S. States Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Governor Richard Codey (acting) Official languages None defined Area 22,608 km² (47th)  - Land 19,231 km²  - Water 3,378 km² (14. ... Hudson may refer to: Hudson Bay, a body of water in northern Canada Hudson River, a river in the eastern U.S. Mount Hudson, a volcano in Chile Hudsons Bay, a 1940 film Hudson Soft, a Japanese video game developer Hudson Motor Car, an automobile manufacturing company Lockheed Hudson... The Raritan people were a tribe of Lenape Indians who inhabited the areas around the present Raritan Bay in northern New Jersey and Staten Island, New York. ... Orders Calanoida Cyclopoida Gelyelloida Harpacticoida Misophrioida Monstrilloida Mormonilloida Platycopioida Poecilostomatoida Siphonostomatoida Copepods are small, aquatic animals living in the sea and nearly every freshwater habitat, a form of plankton, specifically zooplankton, some copepods are parasitic. ... Photomontage of plankton organisms Plankton are the weakly swimming but mostly drifting small organisms that inhabit the water column of the ocean, seas, and bodies of freshwater. ...

Many particles also have a high oxygen consumption, causing estuaries to become anoxic An estuary is a semi-enclosed coastal body of water which has a free connection with the open sea and within which sea water mixes with fresh water. ... Asphyxia is a condition of severely deficient supply of oxygen to the body. ...

References

• Gerlach: Marine Pollution, Springer, Berlin (1975)

See also

• oxygen depletion
• Dead_zone
• particle_(ecology)