Abalone once supported important commercial and recreational fisheries in California, but the impacts of overfishing and disease have prompted the listing of two species of abalone, white and black, as endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
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Pacific leatherbacks face significant threats from entanglement and/or hooking in fisheries (bycatch), direct harvest - including eggs and adults - coastal development, pollution, marine debris, disease and climate change.
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Threats to marine bird populations worldwide include competition for food with fisheries; entanglement in fishing gear; ingestion of marine debris and disturbance of roosting and breeding birds by watercraft, aircraft, humans and introduced species (especially cats, rats and foxes), environmental pollution and oil spills.
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Seabirds are impacted by a variety of human-related activities including oil spills, fisheries interactions, contaminants, disturbances, and habitat destruction.
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