Petroleum pollution in the oceans has been reduced via the use of 'double-hulled' tankers.

The maximum sustainable yield is the maximum amount of fish biomass that can be removed yearly from a stock and still allow the population to be sustained indefinitely.

Plastics are the primary solid pollutant in the ocean because of their non-biodegradable character.

Bioaccumulation is a process where a marine organism preferentially take in a pollutant into their tissue at a higher concentration than exists in the ocean.

The majority of lab-based pollutants found in the ocean is plastic.

Nectkon are ocean animals that crawl across the ocean floor.

Fertilizer runoff from the central United States is not responsible for the Hypoxia Zone on the south coast of Louisiana.

Sewage sludge contains both bacterial and chemical pollutants.

DDT and PCBs are not considered to be persistent organic pollutants.

Presently, the cities of New York and Philadephia, Pennsylvania dump their sewage sludge offshore into the Atlantic Ocean.