What is oil pollution? What are its impacts on the marine ecosystem? In what way is oil pollution particularly harmful for a country like India?

Oil pollution refers to the release of oil in the open seas on coast either due to mishaken failures or deliberately. Weakly focus slurs to ensure adequate safety of oil containers Factors causing all: - Poor regulatory framework to guide oil handling vessels - Lack of timely security audits of vessels - Illegible attempt to dispose waste oil Impacts on marine ecosystem: (1) Fisheries - oil gets into their gills cells affecting their survival (2) Organisms rich as Seacow, crabs etc face suspectory issues especially Alaska disaster (3) Toxicity - leads to mass death such as whales etc (9) Kerala incident 2024 (4) Hypoxic zones created at oil & water can't mix - oxygen slicked death (5) Biodiversity decline - oil hamper external conditions of fauna (6) Goodsuck - suffer as oil enter their bodies and pollutes it Harmful for India: (1) Coastal ecology - oil pollution causes immense damage to balance of ecology (2) Huge dependance of coastal populations on oceans for livelihood - affect their survival (3) Food security - fisheries decline lead to insecurity