According to an article you can read at the PhysOrg.com website more than A MILLION sharks are killed each year in the Atlantic Ocean.
"Of the 21 species found in the Atlantic, three-quarters are classified as threatened with extinction.
North Atlantic populations of the oceanic white tip, for example, have declined by 70 percent, and hammerheads by more than 99 percent, according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN)."
"Many are fished for their fins -- prized as a delicacy in Chinese cuisine -- and then tossed, dead or dying, back into the sea once the choice morsels have been sliced off."
"The practice is prohibited, but loopholes in the regulation have allowed the ban to be widely ignored."
source: http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-million-atlantic-sharks-yearly.html
If these shark species go extinct this will have a devastating effect on the food chains where these sharks existed as apex predators. If they do go extinct, so do we. The ocean covers 2/3 of out planet and gives of 70% of the oxygen we breathe. Sharks are at the top of the food chain, If the Sharks go extinct so will the producers in the ocean food chain and there will be nothing left to produce oxygen!!!. All because some of you want to eat a tasteless bowl of shark-fin soup!
I suggest those of you who eat sharks or shark-fin soup read the following articles:
http://www.livescience.com/animals/060719_top_predators.html
http://www.livescience.com/imageoftheday/siod_050425.html
http://www.futurepundit.com/archives/007360.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/feb/18/conservation.aaas
http://www.bite-back.com/sharks_faq.htm
and if you still want to eat Shark-fin soup after you read these articles (and watch the videos there) then you are one of the World's most selfish persons, someone who is putting all of the life on this planet in danger of going extinct! If you think we are going to allow you to kill all the sharks and other life on this planet then you are very wrong! We will find a way to stop you!
Unnatural Selection - Shark Finning on the Frontier from Blue Sphere Media on Vimeo.
Save The Sharks from Andre Moura on Vimeo.
