Banning overfishing of sharks for their fins
Imagine if you and the people closest to you were just doing what you normally do day to day when all of a sudden out of nowhere someone traps you in a net holding you against your will cutting your arms and legs off then just leave you there bleeding to death.
Everyday tens of millions of sharks are murdered and hunted primarily for their fins to be used in soup. The definition of shark fining means the removal of shark fins while the rest of the body is thrown back into the ocean to drown, starve or get eaten by another animal all leading up to death. Although shark fining has been around for several decades the practice needs to be stopped. Killing sharks for their fins used in soup is known to cause serious health issues and is also unbeneficial towards the oceans ecosystem.
Sharks have been around since before humans much less dinosaurs; they have been around for more than 420 million years. Everything about sharks is just fascinating. Sharks feed on squid, fish, plankton, crustaceans and other various marine life. Known as the oceans sea dogs sharks have a skeleton made of cartilage and a body built for flexibility, durability and speed; perfectly designed for hunting. Born to fend on their own right out of their mother’s womb sharks depend a lot on their eighth sense which allows them to sense things around them without having to hear, see, or touch them. Sharks have three more sense organs than we do known as the lateral line, pit organs and ampullae of lorenzini. Most known to be carnivorous, sharks have the ability to sense tiny drops of blood in the water as far as three miles away and depending...
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...ms are unhealthy and can cause problems such as pollution harming them in return and can also cause problems considering the amount of space or have the ability to feed like they normally would in the ocean. No animal should be kept in a cage for the problems that humans have caused.
The only way we can help save these poor animals that are older than us is to help spread the word on why shark fining should be banned and how harmful it is and what it’s doing to the environment. Ways to help spread the word can be convincing restaurant managers to stop ordering the soup by informing them of the problems caused by shark fining. Although it may be illegal to go shark fining for shark fin soup it isn’t to prepare the soup. Help show local communities they can make more money by conserving the sharks then killing them or something as simple as not eating the soup.
Sharks have also been subjected to medical research, games and competitions, jewellery, souvenirs and cosmetics. We need to take into consideration that sharks play a vital role in the natural world that we live in. it is imperative that we look after these majestic creatures and ensure they remain protected. We need to be aware of the dangers of sharks, swim in protected areas where there are shark nets, and do not swim after dark in the sea (especially not alone) as the sea is the sharks home. Humans should also be wearing wet suits as protection in the ocean. The sea is where they live, they swim freely and they eat – they do not particularly target humans but rather prey on food that is available to them in their habitat.
So why do we need sharks? Well, Sharks help keep the ocean healthy and clean for over 450 million years. They also help remove half of the worlds green house gases and produces oxygen more than all of the rainforest's combined! Sharks are just as important as all the trees in the world because they have one thing in common, provide us with oxygen. Without the sharks help we wouldn't be able to get rid as much of the greenhouse gases as we want to, which means global warming would have a lower rate of happening faster. Most importantly they provide us with food. How? They would usually eat the old, sick or slower fish in the population of the ocean to the right size so the prey species don't cause harm to ecosystem by becoming to populated. They are also at the top of the food web. If all the sharks went extinct the entire food web would collapse causing many other species of fish to disappear. So instead of killing the sharks, we could lure them away to somewhere else. As they have a huge impact to the environment.
One of the governments main reasons for culling the sharks is because they are coming in too close to the shores and becoming a potential threat to swimmers. But why is this happening? This is due to a change in shark feeding habits, but because they are eating more human of course not! Rather because us humans are over fishing and eliminating the fish/food sources of which sharks normally feed on. This is forcing sharks to come in closer to find food. Us as humans have forced sharks to come in closer and are now killing sharks because of our a...
The bull shark may be responsible for many shark attacks in the world but I believe that we have no right to kill them. Sharks are very important to animals food cycles and if the food cycles get messed up it can greatly effect the world. In fact, the bull shark is more vulnerable to human impact due to their ability to live in fresh and salt water but many sharks that are killed are for either shark fin soup or their liver oil. The sharks liver oil has many uses now but it started as a machine lubricant. Another way that sharks die is by recreational fishing. The sharks can get caught up in the fishermen's nets and eventually suffocate and die. As an environmental community, I feel like we need to inform people about shark habits and how to keep sharks safe. The water is their home and we are
Information (sub-point): Shark finning affects the shark most clearly on an individualistic scale. The removal of the shark’s fins makes it nearly impossible for the shark to swim once it is dumped back into the ocean. According to author William J Bennetta, many species of sharks, known as “obligate ram ventilators”, lack the ability to pump water through their gills if they are not constantly moving, and “presumably asphyxiate if unable to move” (Bennetta, 1996). Along with all the cuts, gashes, and beatings that come along with shark finning, most sharks that undergo finning die a very long and painful death due to loss of blood and suffocation.
Shark finning is the practice of slicing off the shark's fins while the shark is still alive and throwing the rest of its body back into the ocean. Sharks thrown in shallow water will fall to the ocean floor die from either bleeding to death or drowning. If the shark is thrown back in deep water they can actually implode due to rapid changes in pressure within the shark’s limp body. They can also die by starving to death, being eaten by other fish. Shark fins are used to make a soup that is considered an Asian "delicacy". The reasons that sharks should be admired and not hunted are almost endless. Despite creating easy income for third world nation’s, shark finnig is a barbaric practice that needs to end
The Great white sharks sense of smell is better than a human. A great white shark could smell a drop of blood from at least 500 miles away! Their eyesight is not so good but when a great white shark is being attacked they roll their eyes to the back of their heads so they can protect them. Sharks have an ear stone that senses vibration in the water from over 100 miles away. Sharks are great hunters.
Mojetta wrote about prehistoric sharks, and the history of these creatures. According to Angelo Mojetta, author of Sharks, Cladoselache genus, one of the first prehistoric sharks, was buried in sediment that kept it preserved. Unlike other sharks, Cladoselache genus had a circle of tiny plates around it’s eyes for protection against it’s victim’s attempts to fight back. These sharks lived over 400 million years ago. Sharks of the past could mostly be identified by their teeth, because shark’s bodies are made of cartilage. Another shark that was focused on was called, Stethacanthus. This shark had a very unique look. Stethacanthus had a brush like decoration on the top of it’s head, and an extra fin like part that had the same bristle like decorations on it. These characteristics were thought to be used as suction cups, to hitch rides from larger fish. One of the most famous sharks that looks like an over...
If anything, they may interpret the act as a just course of action. If shark numbers are to make a significant recovery, then the public requires education. Recently, in order to stop shark finning, shark advocates have tried new methods. With the help of many celebrities and the public alike, conservationists continue to advocate the negative aspects of shark fin soup in order to decrease the demand for the dish. They hope to make the consumption of shark fin “socially unacceptable” (Tsui). Instead of trying to create international bans on shark finning, these groups, such as WildAid, believe that by changing public opinion, the desire for shark fin products will go down. Because shark fin soup represents status and prosperity, hosts at formal celebrations want to impress their guests with the expensive dish. But if shark fin soup falls out of favor in the public eye, the demand for it will naturally lessen. Instead, more sustainable products, such as French wine, can replace shark fin soup to serve to guests
Every year, there are about 100 million Sharks killed, ultimately for its commercial success. Their fins are used as the main ingredient for a dish so-called Shark soup. However, many are unaware of the actual importance of Sharks' existence on Earth. They do a number of things to control and balance aquatic life down below, which in return affects how we live on the surface. Sharks have existed in our world for over 400 million years, if they were to suddenly disappear for industrial purposes, much problems will be encountered throughout the world. We must preserve the lives of Sharks, for many reasons most importantly that shark hunting is morally wrong, it may provide economic failure in a given time, and it may serve a critical unbalance of a healthy environmental state.
Shark finning should be banned. Why would anyone want to needlessly eliminate sharks off the planet just for soup? People should stop finning sharks because it destabilizes marine ecosystems, is an unnecessary thickening agent for shark fin soup, and, being that sharks have one of the strongest immune systems on the planet, may hold the secrets to curing diseases like cancer. People need to stop finning sharks.
Back in the dynasty the Emperors would serve the dish to honor the guest, because they believed it had healing benefits from the concurring of a shark (Fairclough, Caty). Fin soup still occurs today even when not on special (Fairclough, Caty). In addition the shark fins for can sell for a pretty penny anywhere from $500 a pound or even $1,000 a kilogram (Fairclough, Caty). As a matter of fact, fishermen in Melbour, Segal would export $1300 pounds worth of shark fins a week. It was recorded that a single adult fin sells for $80 and a two-meter monster can sell for $300. Additionally, 1 out of every 100 sharks reported killed between 2000-2008 comes from these fisherman(Hinshaw, Drew). (commentary) about Its question that fisherman practice “unsustainable finning” because it does pay nice , but the amount of money gained by finning isn’t comparable to how much sharks are worth to our economy. The global value of shark finning is around $630 million but is declining, while shark tourism is worth $312 million and promises to be worth $780 million in 20 years ( source 8). Human activity of finning isn’t the only reason to the decline of Great White sharks, human protection is another
Thesis: Sharks should be conserved because they are an important part of the ocean, attacks are often incidental, and human behavior influences the behavior of sharks.
Shark fins can be sold at a cost of up to $50 US dollars per pound (Yaukey 1999), to put this number into existence, a regular dorsal fin can weigh as much as 3-5 pounds. This means that one soup from the dorsal fin can roughly cost $250 US dollars, which shows that money is an incentive to continue this illegal act. Sharks reproduce just as we do and need time to grow their children, but the way we are consuming soups and killing them, sharks will
Most people think that sharks are large, fast-swimmers, and savage predators. This is true of some species and groups should be interested of the appealing aspects of biology found within it: all sharks have an excellent sense of smell; some can detect electrical discharges; some sharks give birth to one of the