Sea Save Foundation
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Lead Ammo, which has been linked to poisoning fish, birds and animals has been reintroduced to National Parks and Refuges. Interior Secretary reverses previous ban.
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But the lead we drop in the ocean is not eaten by fish, unlike lead shot that is eaten by birds of prey who feed on animals shot and not recovered by hunters.
Seen any objective studies where lead was actually found to leach from lead shot (in seawater) and actually affect corals? Not just "it should" but has it been observed and proven?
Bigger problem to corals is coral bleaching, which is a very misleading misnomer for "algal ejection", where stressed corals suicidally eject the algae which is providing them with 90% of their nutrients. Why an organism with 500 million years of evolution should respond to stress by cutting off its primary food source, could be the question that saves the reefs. Or, allows them to go extinct as their predecessors did.