Humans
Homo sapiens
Most conservationists have concluded — astonishingly to the general population — that humans are the ocean's deadliest creatures. Our oceans, once viewed as too abundant to be depleted, are now facing dangers of extinction of many species because of human behavior. Overfishing has led scientists to believe that the population of just about all seafood will collapse by 2048. Great white sharks are now considered endangered due to an increase of popularity in their teeth, jaws and fins. Trash, particularly plastics, harms a variety of marine life by wrapping around the fins or flippers of fish, causing drowning, amputation or infection. Most importantly the coral reef, the organism that the entire ocean ecosystem is dependent upon, is being destroyed exponentially by pollution and global warming. Scientists predict that by 2030 almost 95 percent of the coral in the Great Barrier Reef — the world's largest coral reef system — will be dead.
