Sharks Is Not An Easy Task

Why are we killing sharks? Your chances of being killed by a shark is one in 11.5 million. You are more likely to be killed by a dog than a shark attack. Sharks play an important role in the world's ecosystem by them eating dead organisms.

Every Jaws fan knows the shark gets it in the end. What they do not know is that too many sharks have gotten it; and that has caused a rapid decline in the shark population over the past thirty years. Since the 1970's, sharks of the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico shores have declined eighty-five percent. Sharks are vital animal to our world's ecosystem, and if the decline is not controlled; we could be facing devastating problems in years to come. Information has been obtained from two books: The Shark Almanac by Thomas B. Allen and Sharks, An Introduction for the Amateur Naturalist by Sanford A. Moss. Sources also include a number of online references, among them BBC News, ENS News, The New York Times, and two online scientific

Arising over 350 million years ago, the shark species has been labeled as a human devourer. Now, with the increase in human population, the demand for shark meat, fins, and cartilage are at an all time high; therefore, the existence of the shark is becoming a concern (Budker 1971). Individuals are conditioned to think of sharks as a negative aspect to the environment, which is prolonging the effort to save shark species from becoming extinct. With that in mind, some private as well as national organizations have accepted the challenge of educating and informing people about the existence of the shark specie and its importance to the sea.

Fish 1and chips, messed up ecosystems and broken food chain. Why do we have to cull our beautiful sharks that have done no harm to us? I have conducted a research about shark culling and why people do this. I strongly disagree to shark culling. I mainly think that we should just keep an eye out on the sharks in the ocean. They only mistake us a seals and eat us. We should all incorporate and help increase the population of sharks again. Now why do people cull sharks and how can we prevent this? What does shark culling affect?

People visceral when they see a shark and they try to capture and kill it. Only some people want to protect sharks. Sharks help by keeping the fish population down First, we can protect sharks by doing little things such as stop finning sharks, picking up our trash. Next people destroy environments by oil spills. Not picking up trash. Last if people don’t stop finning sharks and not throwing their trash away our environment will smell bad and we will have no sharks left.

To this day, many of us still see them this way. In fact, coastal states stared to host shark culling events. In these sometime month-long events, a state government will pay any fishermen to bring in a freshly killed shark generous amounts of money. Peter Benchley, the author of "Jaws" doesn't support shark culling, he in fact helped raise awareness about sharks becoming endangered. He wrote articles about how misunderstood sharks are (Benchley, Peter). This is now illegal in the United States, but is still practiced in countries such as Japan and Australia. Even in those countries, shark culling is on its way out. But

Thesis: Sharks are a vital part of our ecosystem, and killing them disrupts the delicate balance of the ocean.

In fact, humans currently hunt sharks for food, medicine, leather, jewelry, and liver oil; however, sharks are worth more alive than they are hunted and sold. In agreement with the article, “Great White Sharks”, by Peter Benchley, living sharks are worth more revenue, particularly in a tourist town. In the text, it states, “ Gradually governments and individuals are learning that while a dead shark may bring ten or twenty or even fifty dollars to a single fisherman, a live shark can be worth thousands of dollars more in tourist revenue to a community” (Source B). For instance, tourists would pay great deals of money to see a live shark in its natural habitat. Overall, most humans have a negative perspective of sharks, wanting to kill them for their resources; however, it is clear that sharks are worth more alive than dead.

Sharks should not be killed because it would mess up the food chain, and they only attack because they are scared so they defend themselves.

Within 1996-2000, shark fin imports increased by 6%. To get the shark fins, men would catch sharks, cut off their fins, and then throw them back into the water. Are shark fin soup worth killing millions and millions of sharks? There are also many different uses for the different parts of the shark. For example, shark oil can be used for makeup and cosmetics, shark cartilage pills supposedly benefits our health and is old in health food stores, and shark steaks are sold all over the world. Although there are many economic benefits from shark finning, it can also threaten recreational fisheries, and other traditional ways of fishing.

Sharks have been known to have high amounts of proteins in their meat and they have high commercial and recreational value. For thousands of years this cruel sport has been occurring. Each year humans kill 100 million sharks, The act of shark finning can be described as very cruel; fishers catch a shark, cut off its fins, and throws the shark back in the ocean to die. There are many reasons why people around the world have made it a job or hobby to catch sharks these include; shark finning, high price for shark meat, recreational, food, a “miracle” soup in Asia, obtaining their cartilage, and their oils and skin. This activity has caused a high depletion rate in the shark population, and sharks are apex predators. Apex predators are very necessary in the growth and survival of an ecosystem. If we kill a lot of sharks we then create an imbalance of animals that can cause several problems for the ocean. We need to make a stop worldwide and have significant changes to the consequences for this cruel

Whether sharks should be culled or not has become one of the most controversial issues in modern society. However it has become significantly more apparent that sharks should not be killed and this expository will be focusing on why sharks should not be culled. If the top predator of a food chain is removed, then that may cause the end of many more species. By removing the top predator of the food chain, this interrupts and disrupts the entire food chain and the animals on it.

Figure 1. Graph showing an overall increase in global shark catch. approximately 800,000 tonnes per year[1], so now, around 90% of the shark population has been wiped out[2]. Sharks are very late at developing sexual maturity; for example, female great white sharks do not reach maturity until they’re about 10 years old and when they are eventually mature enough, they only give birth to a few pups a year. This slow reproduction process results in sharks being

b) Sharks try so hard to become unhooked that they end up suffocating themselves. Most of time the long lining is not meant to catch sharks but other species, and so then the Sharks are just thrown back to ocean as a waste. This process is call bycatch.

Environmental scientists look for ways to better our world and protect our ecosystem from human destruction. Debate on the regulation of species, climate change, and how to lower emissions, are all things that environmental scientists look at. One of the most recent crisis’, is a problem not within the US, but takes place in China and other parts of Asia, a practice called shark finning. This is where sharks are captured, have their fins removed for food, and then are thrown back into the ocean, alive, to sink and die. The people of China use these fins for food and other medical reasons. Since the process of finning sharks is so easy, the people of China are able to kill them off very quickly.