Mrs. Brown
Chesapeake’s decrease in algae population would kill the ecosystem. Plants in water live off of bacteria, When bacteria is scarce, the Zooplankton and other under water animals and bugs, which eat plants would die off. After the plants and small animals like Zooplankton die off, then Oysters, Crabs, and other species start to die off also since they really have nothing else to eat. When crabs and other animals when run out of zooplankton to eat they would eat bacteria of plants but if there are no plants they have nothing to fall back on, so they would die off also. As water life continues to die off the fish eventually will have nothing to obtain their appetites with. Fish will eat the insides of oysters, crabs, and other animals, …show more content…
The only bad thing about draining the ponds, lakes, or other bodies of is that all the water turtles, fish, and other under water species die and eventually when all the bacteria and bad stuff in the water is killed off and it is time to put water back into the flowage or other body of water then you will have to plant more fish and start all over with the animal life in that body of water. Another good idea of algae growth is they can take all the fish and block them off in certain areas and in the other areas where the fish are blocked out of , they can drain those areas and kill off all the bad fungi and bacteria. By draining all the areas it would kill off everything and the bodies of water would have a fresh start. They could also push all the fishing upstream if it is in a flowage and drain certain areas of it. According to AWTT.com if a body of water id drained, it will take up to 2 years for good bacteria to enter the water again, 4 years for harmful bacteria to enter the water. It will take up to 10 years for trophy fish to grow up in the fresh body of water. Since it is new bacteria in the water it will take the fish many years to grow up quick, their growing process will be a lot slower then a healthy body of water that has not been