Since the information on these three infamous sharks, people should be more aware that a shark is just trying to survive and is naturally curious. It does not like human flesh, but if provoked or just out of curiosity it will defend itself. Marine scientists want to see the depletion rate of sharks drop to all time lows. No matter the stigma around the sharks; they are necessary for our oceanic ecosystem. The bull shark, great white, and the hammerhead shark do not need to be poached under any circumstance. Sharks are apex predators and without apex predators the ecosystem gets unbalanced. Save our oceans and the image surrounding our sharks.
Since the information on these three infamous sharks, people should be more aware that a shark is
Sharks, the scariest, biggest, baddest creatures! That's what we make them out to be, but are they really? The answer is no, we say that. We kill more of them than they kill of us, about 900,094 more. Sharks, being carnivores, are NOT natural predators of humans.
Sharks have been creatures that can date back to over 450 billion years, and have survived through all disaster and still live on Earth today. This is a great feat for anything to stay in existence for that amount of time, and hopefully sharks can continue to live on this Earth and not go extinct. There are hundreds if not thousands of species of shark from when they first swam Earth’s oceans to when they continue to swim the same oceans. The study of sharks is a very interesting and extraordinary topic, being able to put together images of what sharks used to look like compared to sharks now is just amazing. In this vast amount of time sharks have spent on this Earth there has been many things that has changed, through evolution and adaptation. Through research and personal opinion I plan to show how sharks have evolved, what has changed through evolution and the history of
Sharks are vicious creatures and eat humans. Don’t go into the water if you see a shark nearby or they will come after you. These are a few of the many things you will hear from the television or even people you may know. Humans are not a part of the shark diet so it is highly unlikely that a shark would randomly go after a human. The media likes to make their shark stories more exciting by adding words like “aggressive” or “threatened.” There was a total of 4 deaths caused by sharks in 2014 which is a large contrast to the 11,417 sharks that are killed per hour by humans. sharks) need to be preserved and protected in order to preserve our oceans. Laws that are more strict should be implemented in order to achieve this goal.
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
I don’t think that sharks are what people call them yes that some sharks are dangerous but most other sharks are harmless so if you think that sharks are all dangerous then you are wrong because it is half and half some are dangerous but other sharks aren’t dangerous they're harmless.
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
The cause of this debate comes with the return of White Sharks to the area. Over the past few years, there has been an increase of this apex predator to our coasts like never before seen, most notably since Labor Day weekend in 2009. Five sharks had been tagged by a marine biologist, Greg Skomal, and have been closely tracked and documented since. Skomal is a key player in this research as project leader
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.
The infographic states, “Between 1999 and 2009, an average of fewer than five people died from shark attacks each year worldwide.” This indicates that humans are harming sharks even more than sharks are harming humans. Instead of hunting these innocent creatures, people should be saving
But everyone is different and reacts differently to situations. Some people believe that sharks are mindless killing machines and actively hunt humans whereas others believe that sharks are beautiful creatures and should be left to their own devices. The family of Ken Crew gave a statement regarding the question of this essay at Crew’s funeral, which was “Let the shark live. Ken loved the sea and appreciated the creatures that live in it. He would not have wanted the shark killed, and neither do we.” This statement was personally surprising as it could be seen as a rare view, especially coming from the family of a man who was killed by a shark. People who have been attacked by sharks and lived have stated that they feel no ill will towards their attacker. An example of this is Heather Boswell, who went swimming with some friends in 1994 and lost her leg to a shark, although she doesn’t feel that the shark should be killed for taking her
Since the late 2000’s, two studies have shown that the Great White Sharks population in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans are on the rise after a harsh decline in the 70’s and 80’s (Landen and Landen, 2014). Great White Sharks population is increasing with over 2,210 adults in the Australasian area, but they are lacking in data of juvenile sharks in the region and there are likely to be an excess of 8,000 to 10,000 sharks (Australian Geographic, 2018). So, even if one shark was killed for
For millions of years, sharks have thrived, with nothing to fear. But in recent years that has changed. Over the past 10 years, an average of 100 million sharks have been killed every year. That’s right, 100 million sharks Every year. In some parts of the world, sharks have completely vanished. It does not have fanged teeth or strangling tentacles. It doesn’t even live in the sea. The creature killing the sharks is the human being. The disappearance of sharks had an effect on the ecosystem. Because of overfishing off the east coast of the U.S bull sharks have had
Not only do people have reason to be scared of sharks because of basic human nature, but the numbers do not work in sharks’ favor. Due to an increase in the number of people swimming in the ocean and using the coast for recreation, shark attacks have steadily increased across the globe. According to one study of Australian coasts, shark attacks have risen “from an average of 6.5 incidents per year in 1995-2000, to 15 incidents per year over the past decade” (West). The fact that there are more attacks per year means that there’s more media coverage of those attacks, which means that the concept of sharks as villains is reaching more people, which means that sharks are getting an even worse reputation than they were before.
These sharks are built to destroy whatever prey they are going after, with their six rows and roughly sixty teeth per row, everything about them says “dangerous.” These scientists are focused purely on the sheer force and muscle of the animal and not on the point of instinct or any sliver of pure intellectuality. These sharks are well misunderstood in the way that they actually think. According to the article by the Discovery Channel on the intellect of sharks, the author described how many people think that sharks are just mindless killing machines, and even when the sharks only show a glimpse of their possible intellect there are behaviors that suggest the sharks may be smarter than we think. We still have much to learn about these predators in the ocean considering we have only actually thoroughly studied, as stated in the article by the NOAA, “For all of our reliance on the ocean we’ve only explored about 5 percent, leaving the other 95 percent of this realm unexplored, unseen by the human
I How many of yall like Sharks? Most people are deadly scared of sharks, and some just simply do not like them. Well, I am not here to inform to like sharks, but here to inform you of the issues that shark face today.