Where Did All the Seafood Go? Who did Earl White say is
responsible for pollution in PEOPLE! Mr. White says, "People
done it all. By the time they realized what they was doing, it
was too late." Here are some ways that people cause pollution
that harms the seafood in the Bay: - Farmers around the Bay put
fertilizer on their fields to make the crops grow better. The
fertilizer runs off into the Bay and makes algae grow. (Algae
are tiny green plants.) This blocks the sunlight from getting to
the bottom, so the grasses that the baby crabs need for food
die. Since they don't have enough food, the baby crabs die, -
Cites and industries in the state need to get rid of the waste
that people make. They dump bad stuff like oil and sewage
(called pollutants) into rivers that lead into the Bay. These
pollutants kill the fish. - School children - from Cumberland to
Frederick to Baltimore to Chestertown to Ocean City - throw
plastic bags onto the ground. Rain washes the plastic bags into
storm drains. The storm drains emp