If excrements (p**p) were floating in the ocean, would fish eat it?

Question

or, would it dissolve into harmless ingredients? or would it forever be floating away with the waves? Just in case someone is at the beach and there's no place for them to relieve themselves (haha)...

Answer 1

Alas, yes. I saw it happen in NY Harbor. What doesn't get eaten does get broken down physically and biologically, in time. Before that happens, though, it could wash up on the beach again for you to step in.

Answer 2

Well fish wouldn't but cleaner shrimp and ather parasitic or low food chain organisms would.

Answer 3

Forget an individual at the beach! Cruise ships have to flush their toilet somewhere! The law says they can't flush their sewage too close to port, but near the island of Molokai, fishmermen have found human excrement floating on top of the ocean. Environmental authories claimed it was whale excrement, but the fishermen I know point out that whales don't use toilet paper.

Eventually, it will dissolve, everything dissolves. Ocean waves turn rocks and coral into sand, they'll do something similar to p**p in short order. And humans, of course, aren't the only animals pooping in the water. Recently, weather conditions in Maui meant that large concentrations of turtle p**p were washing  up on the beach--or so they say.

Yes, if creatures in the sea will try to eat the plastic rings that hold a six-pack of soda or beer together (they resemble jellyfish), they'll eat what I used to call a "fishie" when I was 3.

Answer 4

Eww. Don't do that!

Fish are pretty high up on the food chain. They won't touch it. But bacteria, plankton and algae would probably break it down.

Answer 5

Fish might not eat it unless they have sense.Baby fish at birth will not eat it at all because baby fish have yolk on them so they feed off there selfs.