Human Impacts

I visited brackett's landing by the kingston ferry, its a local beach with a salt water ecosystem. When visiting this location I saw three things that affect the marine ecosystem, first the ferry boat, the noise affects the organisms from and to the island. Then there was the underwater park, which is nice for divers but it might scare other fishes or mammals away when they realize a large human is in that area, and lastly I noticed a poster that instructed to not disturb the seal pups. The thing with that is that people are too needy to get those selfies, or want to get those "I'm so cool stories", or they really do not know, but there should always be a distance kept within any marine mammals for the comfort of the organism. If this poster was there was because people have probably already disturbed them to the point someone had to put this sign up to inform them not to. The structure of the park was a visual impact itself, they arranged the location to satisfy human needs and give it its nice aesthetic look instead of allowing it to remain in its natural state. A long term effect could be the loss of marine mammal activity which as we learned in class will always have an affect on the food chain. H: The more human activity the less amount of marine mammals will visit that location, which will lead to the over population of other organisms in which they (marine mammals) prey on. We could have less boat activity, clean up after ourselves when visiting the beach, reduce of consumption of fossil fuel products, and walk or bike more.