81. Oil platforms have become rich habitats for fish and other marine life seeking shelter. 82. One likely side effect of opening the spillway, however, is agitating local fishermen and conservationists concerned about marine life in estuarine Lake Pontchartrain. 83. Or you can merely observe the marine life in what local boosters like to call the Dolphin Capital of Australia. 84. People are taking marine life faster than it can reproduce. 85. Plastic is a greater environmental danger in coastal areas, because discarded sacks can end up in the water, where they can create hazards for some marine life. 86. Plastic kayaks are inflatable and have clear bottoms so the curious can explore marine life. 87. Researchers say the runoff fuels algae blooms that eventually die and decompose, depleting oxygen in the water and leaving vast areas in which marine life cannot survive. 88. Salt from the desert soil and fertilizers from the fields poured into the sea, sustaining a robust ecology of marine life. 89. Savannah hospitality, we discovered, extends all the way to the marine life. 90. Scientists argue, however, that if the fishing is not limited, marine life here will eventually be fatally depleted. |