Essay On Fin For Thought

Sharks are the top predators. But frankly, they are starting to vanish out of oceans every day. The sharks biggest enemy are humans. Us humans will kill sharks for food. Sometimes people will even take shark teeth and turn them into jewelry. Humans also will cut off the shark’s skin, and turn it into leather. If you find that disturbing, did you know that some individuals will cut out the shark’s liver and make it into a type of medicine?

Shark finning is the process of cutting off the fins of a shark and discarding the body at sea (“Stop Shark Finning”, 2009). People catch sharks for its fins, meat, oil, skin and so on. Sharks fins are most commonly used in Asian cooking which is shark fin soup. According to Maddalena, Sommeran and Leander (2007), people have been demanding for shark fins dramatically recently, it is unclear how many sharks are caught annually but some of the conservationists estimate the number to be upwards of 100 million. Besides, shark conservationists are aware about the consequences of the high demand of shark fins, they advocate people to stop killing sharks and eating shark fins. Practice of shark finning is causing imbalance marine ecosystems and it

The things that sharks are being killed for is sickening. So far, humans have decimated about 90 percent of the world’s shark populations for the sake of shark tooth jewelry and jaws that tourists buy in massive quantities, sharkskin accessories, phony medicines made from their cartilage, and a huge range of cosmetics, deodorants, moisturizers, sun tan lotions, and lip balms that use shark liver oil as a base because it makes our skin soft. (Check the ingredients of these items before you buy. If they contain “squalene” or “squalane,” leave them on the shelf.) (M. R., Ph. (2015, February 08). The Most Misunderstood Shark Fact Of All Time. From

Well, at the end of the day people can think what they want but if you ever see a shark you will see that they are not trying to hurt anybody they are just trying to be their true selves. This is why we should protect sharks, because most are harmless, not dangerous, and most of them are already dying because people are killing them, this is why we should protect the sharks no matter what. So whatever you do to the sharks just know that the sharks are not trying to hurt anybody you are just

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s article “The Brutal Business of Shark Finning” reminds us that sharks play a key role in the ocean as both predators and scavengers.

Scientists are estimating that, worldwide, populations of some species of sharks dropped by 80%! We harvest these poor sharks like its nothing. Sharon Gunyup says, “But the shark’s greatest enemy is people. Humans kill sharks for food, use their skins for leather, make medicine from their oil, and use shark teeth for jewelry.” Not only is it bad that we are killing them, but what you probably don’t know is that shark populations take a while to rebound. Most sharks take at least 9-10 years to reach the reproductive age and produce very small litters of pups. Sharks have been around longer than dinosaurs; these are majestic creatures and we need to stop finning, harvesting, and hurting them. They deserve to live, just like

More and more people have been introduced to a very dangerous practice called shark-finning. Even the people who are aware of the harmful effects they bring still continue on doing it. People are afraid of sharks due to their fierce appearance and the bad publicity they get such as the movies wherein sharks attack humans. Only about 5 people are killed by sharks every year. In fact, vending machines has a higher death rate of 13, while ants can kill about 30 people annually. Sharks are very beneficial to us, why do people keep on harming them? Why is shark-finning so important? Shark-finning gives both advantages and disadvantages economically, politically, cultural, societal, and environmental. It is important to recognize the

Many people find this as justification to go out and hunt down sharks in the name of “justice”. Rodney Fox, a well-known shark conservationist said “when a shark attacks someone we go ‘that shark needs to be punish’” this is true but, the laws of our world don’t apply to animals. Sharks are not a pet they cannot be domesticated like dog or trained like orcas. Even then animals that are “domesticated” are known to still attack people because they will always be animals. It is people job to be careful in the ocean not for the shark to be careful when it is looking for food. Due to this mentality one quarter of sharks are threatened with extinction. News often refers to some oceans as “shark infested” but you cannot infest your own home. In western Australian there is a term for killing sharks that have killed people; it’s called shark cull. This is a legal government policy, where they use bait drums to trap large sharks and then kill them to “protect” people. Australian fishermen are being paid an average of $610,000.00 for 107 days of work a year to kill these creatures. Even sharks that have not been proven to have attacked any human are part of this grim task. They are baited, hooked and once hooked, if not dead, they are slaughtered and bodies discarded at sea. The real monster of the seas seems clear after taking all these ideas into

The shark week video is a channel based on shark and shows how dangerous sharks are. Sharkwater shows that shark is no dangerous and approves their theory. They say that sharks bite us because they don’t know us. I think that shark fining should be illegal because if we kill the entire shark, the ecosystem will not be the same. Life on earth depends on the life in the ocean. The purpose of the movie is to sensitize the people to try and stop shark fining. Also try and stop the corruption between government and the fisher of shark. In 2013, 27 countries and the European Union have banded shark finning. Finning is illegal in the Eastern Pacific but there is a lot of people that continues finning and fishing in the Pacific and the Indian Ocean.

In the words of Julia “overexploitation threatens the future of many large vertebrates” (Buam et al.). For many years sharks have fallen victim to over fishing, pollution related death, and wasteful culling. According to Sullivan, Twenty percent of the world’s shark population is currently threatened with extinction. According

How the sharks are processed depends on their intended use. Some sharks are harvested for their skin. A knife is used to separate the meat and skin. The process is the same as processing cattle for leather. The scales are removed and then the skin is tanned. To retrieve shark oil the liver is removed. The liver is cut into small pieces and cooked. The oil is is then extracted from the water and sent to be proceed depending on the intended use. (Tenllado, et al., 2011) Shark finning is controversial and banned in many countries. The finning occurs on the fishing boat. The fins are cut off and divided into two quality grades depending on which fin it is. The rest of the shark is tossed back into the

Conservationists across the globe have presented the notion that sharks are worth more alive than dead, because of the economic growth that shark ecotourism brings in. “The study

Many people are unaware of the cruelty that is shark finning, it involves cutting off the sharks fins then throwing them back in the ocean to die a slow and painful death, unaware of the dangers a shark extinction would pose to the entire ecosystem, even though the ocean produces the majority of the oxygen we breathe many people do not care. Luckily we have many great organizations and volunteers that are trying to spread awareness of the cruelty that sharks are forced to endure, companies such as: www.sharksavers.org this organization is currently partnered with many big companies such as natgeo to stop and or lower the consumption of shark fin soup due to the inhumane methods of de-finning them, Shark Savers’ programs result in more protections

2007  The UN General Assembly recommended that all countries strengthen shark finning bans and consider the requirement of sharks be landed with fins attached. As they believe that this is one of the-the most effective method of ending the cruel and inhumane practice of shark finning (which also helps to reduce the amount of sharks killed by commercial fisheries).

Soon we are going to love in a world without fish, if shark finning continues. Sharks are constantly being hunted which makes them endangered, which causes a chain of events that will ultimately lead to the extinction of the aquatic ecosystem. Shark finning is something that should stop because it is inhumane, endangering sharks, destroying the aquatic ecosystem.