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Maybe about 10 years ago, in coral reefs you would find so many different colors and species but today there has been dramatic changes, corals loosing their colors and more gray spaces can be seen throughout the coral populated areas in the world than it has ever been, this is what scientists called it “BLEACHING”.

Coral bleaching is caused by global warming, changes in the ocean temperature becoming more warmer and obviously devastating for these poor organisms…

The bleaching has caused much devastation in the water that we, humans, rarely noticed. Once the corals die,the small fish that clean the corals by eating algae, have no home to lay their eggs, they must search for new locations or just die out of malnutrition. Another result is that the small fish will become extinct and the bigger fish have no food. If there is no food for the bigger fish, they will leave their old homes, near the islands, to look for food and in the process be killed by the bigger and stronger predators.The islanders that use fish as thier basic daily meal will have a harder time catching them, also even bigger fish will die off because sooner or later fish food will be scarce.The end result is that corals,and fish will die if the corals keep bleaching at the rate they are going, that means no more fish to eat for islander.

Some ways to help the corals and other sea creatures survive are: Riding public buses,or using your bike, dont pollute the ocean with trash, Conserve the power you use at home, and more.

Thinking about Coral Bleaching and hearing my Dad talked about it, it causes me concern for my people back in the islands because for sure they will not find it easy to catch fish anymore. It would take the men longer to fish and cause a lot of headaches back home. Not only that, islanders may find it necessary to move to other places for survival.

I think the bigger nations have a huge obligation to the islands and must find ways to limit their contributions to this horrible man made phenomenon. I already said several things that we, as humans, should do to at least slow the progress of Bleaching or hopefully reverse it.

I heard my Dad talked about Guam and Hawaii reps to the Congress introducing more legislation to limit Micronesians from migrating to the US and that is sad because islanders must be afforded that opportunity to come here and go to school or work for survival. America and the bigger nations owe a lot to the poor islanders so they must stand up and help them when they need help.

Thank you for reading my post,and please, sometimes use these tips to save the sea creatures.

Today I went to Tacoma and saw a lot of pollution in the ocean, so I stopped by and took a couple of pictures with my dad. The pollution came from all sources. The ocean looks more polluted than last friday. There were pollution everywhere, mostly from the factories lining the coastal part of the City we were at. Even on the other side of Tacoma where I thought there was going to be none.

To stop pollution some day, everyone must play their role in controlling what they use and dispose of non-usable materials properly. There must me stringent regulations on factories or everyone on earth would regret it. Polluting the ocean can lead to a lot of bad things including affecting the fish we catch because they may not taste as good.

In the islands, the oceans are really amazing. The water is crystal clear and the sands are pure white. Why is that? Because there is nothing to pollute the water. Islanders live and depend on nature. They respect what’s given to them by God.

Up here in Washington it is really rainy all year besides Summer. So the run-offs may bring all the pollution into the Puget Sound water way. It is why when you look out into the water, it is very muddy looking.

The air is much cleaner here in Washington than in Corvallis, Oregon, the city that we came from. Corvallis is in a valley so the air was not circulating as much. Here, there is the water, lots of mountains and the breeze just blew the air all over circulating it which makes it less concentrated than if there is no wind.

Still Washington and Corvallis are both better if you think of the rivers I saw on news in China. They look much more polluted and ugly looking. I am lucky to eat fish that are from the oceans here. But those Islanders are much luckier!  THANKS FOR READING!