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https://www.conservationinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/640px-Fish-farm-hero.jpg640396Human activities degrade ecosystems. This has been obvious for millennia in terrestrial and fresh-water systems, but it became obvious only recently in marine systems. Examples of degraded marine ecosystems are numerous, but the causes of these changes are uncertain because of inherent difficulties in studying marine systems.