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The 2007 film Sharkwater documents ways in which sharks are being hunted to extinction. [15] In 2009, the IUCN Shark Specialist Group reported on the conservation status of pelagic (open water) sharks and rays. They found that over half the pelagic sharks targeted by high-seas fisheries were threatened with extinction. [16] [17] [18]
While sharks sit near the top of the food chain in the ocean, their extinction would still have an effect on our life. Without sharks, the ecosystem would be thrown off, triggering changes to the ...
Older than dinosaurs and trees, sharks have endured a lot throughout their 450 million years on Earth. They’ve even survived five mass extinctions, including the asteroid that wiped out 75% of ...
He was fascinated with how sharks moved through water using their multiple fins. The Colombia native was never afraid of them when he visited his beloved beach. A third of shark species face ...
In 2014, a shark cull in Western Australia killed dozens of sharks (mostly tiger sharks) using drum lines, [148] until it was cancelled after public protests and a decision by the Western Australia EPA; from 2014 to 2017, there was an "imminent threat" policy in Western Australia in which sharks that "threatened" humans in the ocean were shot ...
Harmless to humans, the Pondicherry shark was caught and used for meat. [7] Fewer than 20 specimens have been deposited in museum collections, most of which were collected prior to 1900. This shark's rarity originally led to fears that it may be possibly extinct.
The reality is that humans are a bigger threat to sharks than they are to us. Sharks are apex predators that keep biodiversity balanced by maintaining the species below them in the food chain.
Galeorhinus is a genus of houndshark containing one extant species, the widespread but highly threatened school shark (G. galeus), and several extinct species dating back to the Late Cretaceous . [ 1 ] [ 2 ]