What animals are in danger from the great pacific garbage patch?

Answer 1

The plastic garbage in the ocean affects all kinds of marine life. Things like fishing nets, plastic bags, and many other pieces entrap and strangle ocean life and birds. Smaller pieces are swallowed by fish and birds which choke them or fill the creatures stomach with indigestible, non nutrient matter and starve them, and even smaller bits are eaten by smaller fish instead of their normal plankton, leading to their death. Parts of this plastic mass ends up on the shores of islands and have the same devastating effect on the creatures there.

Answer 2

Plastic bottles and bags dumped from ships and from storm water drains and rivers float in the oceans and the wind and currents bring them all to this great revolving Pacific Gyre.

Some of the plastic fragments have been broken down into tiny microscopic pieces. Blue whales are filter feeders. They use baleen in their mouths as filters, as they search for krill. They are swallowing much of the plastic pieces and larger fragments get caught in their baleen, making it difficult to feed.

The sun and the oceans have broken the plastic down. As the plastic degrades it releases many toxins which get into the food chain. It also breaks up into tiny pieces which are attractive to sea birds and marine creatures. This plastic junk builds up in their stomachs till they die. Some of the particles are microscopic and filter feeders like whales are swallowing them.

Answer 3

pacific fish bird and varieties of animals