Savagely cutting off a human’s arm is totally immoral, and yet fishermen continue to cut off sharks’ fins and leave them for dead. Shark finning is practiced by numerous countries, but only banned by a few. While it is well known that this barbarian and horrifying practice is severely endangering most shark populations there are only a few laws in a few places that regulate the shark fin trade. The reason shark finning continues to go on is due to the high market demand, weak legal constraints, and the ignorance
called shark-finning. Even the people who are aware of the harmful effects they bring still continue on doing it. People are afraid of sharks due to their fierce appearance and the bad publicity they get such as the movies wherein sharks attack humans. Only about 5 people are killed by sharks every year. In fact, vending machines has a higher death rate of 13, while ants can kill about 30 people annually. Sharks are very beneficial to us, why do people keep on harming them? Why is shark-finning so important
Culture and Shark Finning Management Shark finning, the act of removing a shark’s fins and dumping its carcass, is arguably the biggest threat to shark populations worldwide. Each year, anywhere from 73 to 100 million sharks are killed to make a traditional Chinese dish called shark fin soup (Jefferies, 2012). While most countries have laws in place to regulate shark finning, the immense demand for shark fins has created an international black market. China’s large population coupled with a recent
2014 It is no secret that sharks have a bad reputation for being blood-thirsty man-killers. Sharks are known as the “killers of the sea.” Every year, on average, 10 people are killed by sharks; however, every second 3 sharks are slaughtered by humans. So who is the real “killer of the sea?” Sharks are victims to a cruel and inhumane practice known as finning. Finning is a practice that is more practiced in the pacific today but used to be practiced all around the world. Finning refers to when commercial
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
Although, sharks are not one of these species. Shark finning is an act of catching sharks and harvesting the fins off of them while they are still alive. After the process, they are let back out to either drown or die of bleeding out, and it’s beginning to become out of control. Shark finning should be more heavily regulated due to the increase of illegal demands in the economy for shark fins, the drastic decrease in shark populations, and the negative impacts the low number of sharks cause to the
What is Shark Finning, why is it done and what are the consequences? I am writing this essay about ‘shark finning’. What is it and why is it done? Shark finning is when the shark is captured and the fins are cut off to sell. The shark fins are used in medicines in China but are also used as a decoration in shark fin soup. There are many problems due to only the fins being taken. Firstly the sharks are thrown back into the ocean still alive, without their fins they are not able to swim causing them
Shark Finning General Purpose: To persuade the audience to support laws against shark finning. Specific Purpose: To persuade the audience to go online and sign a petition to help stop shark killings and to support the entire Racing Extinction cause in order to save species around the world from going extinct. INTRODUCTION A. Attention Gainer: For the attention gainer, I plan on showing the audience a two minute and thirty second video in order to display the tragic events that are happening around
Sharks remain very well identified for their strong well known nature as a king in the ocean. Still, they encounter the threat of going extinct. Who has the ability to threaten the life of these innocent fishes? It’s always the adroit Human! Sharks poaching activities have been prospering since the early 90s, it can be accounted by the drastic growth of the economies and population in some Asian countries mostly the Chinese and Taiwanese, which led to the increase in demand for shark fin soup due
Did you know that sharks have been here longer than us humans? Sharks have been swimming the oceans for hundreds to millions of years before the first humans are said to have appeared on land. Unfortunately the shark population has been decreasing due to the shark fishing market. People have often thought sharks as predators to the human race; but truthfully, we should fear living in a world with no sharks. Occasionally, over 100 million sharks are killed by humans. These sharks are killed for their
SAVE THE SHARKS: Their Lives Are In Our Hands A sharks natural environment is the sea and it has every right to live and swim in it. Humans need to be accountable for their own actions. When you enter their domains, you accept the risks. Just like any other activity we participate in! We must realise before it’s too late that there are consequences to our actions……………………... Shark Finning- A Booming Industry…. It is estimated that 100 million sharks are killed each year, 30% is
When most people hear the word "shark", the image of a vicious killing machine pops into their head. They picture something out of the movie Jaws, where a massive Great White shark terrorizes an entire beach and eats dozens of people. However, this fictional story is nothing more than Hollywood entertainment. In the real world, the tables are turned. Humans are the ones who kill sharks, and not just by the dozens. It has been estimated that over 100 million sharks are killed every year by humans
Sharks are very dangerous and ferocious fish but they are still amazing and beautiful fish that do not deserve to be harmed. One thing that truly affects the sharks in a negative way is shark finning. This action causes the death of over 100 million sharks a year. Shark finning is wrong in so many ways and a lot of people do not even notice or are aware of the situation. Shark finning is when people capture shark and cut off their fins but don't necessarily take the shark itself and instead leave
organizations have made an effort to stop shark finning. The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, or CITES persists as currently one of the largest organizations helping endangered species worldwide. However, the process to approve a species as endangered and place the specific taxonomic group under CITES' security is a long and difficult process. This lack of progress has caused many celebrities and smaller organizations to take action against finning themselves. Celebrities “including
world, one worldwide concern is on sharks, the finning of sharks. Shark finning should be banned due to the reason that it affects species and sharks.Shark finning should be prohibited around the whole world because it lowers the shark population, it makes sharks unable to swim, and other organisms are affected by this practice. Shark finning refers to the removal and the detainment of shark fins while the remainder of the shark is abandoned in the ocean. The sharks are returned to the oceans without
Sharks are widely viewed as frightening, vicious predators that feast without hesitation on all fish in the ocean and occasionally even an unlucky human. When humans picture sharks, they see giant monsters that terrorize the ocean and its inhabitants. In reality, it's the other way around. An estimated 100 million sharks are killed by humans every year through illegal fishing, environmental issues, and shark finning. Sharks, however, average only 19 attacks on humans in the U.S. per year and only
movies sharks are seen as monstrous creatures. In reality they are predators, but they are also the prey. They have been preyed on by humans. Us humans, we are overpowered by greed of wealthiness, so much so that we would cut of the fins off innocent creatures while they're alive. What kind of soul would kill another for greed? The answer to that is simple, everyone. “1390 Sharks are killed every 10 minutes.That’s 8,333 sharks killed every hour. 73 Million sharks are killed as a result of finning each
Shark finning is something that should be illegal because shark are animals that should not be hurt for no reason. Because sharks are living creatures that under no circumstance should suffer. Shark finning is the process in which you cut off a shark fin in order to sell for a very large profit to make shark fin soup, this wasteful and often cruel practice contradicts all principles of sustainable shark. Shark finning is something cruel and violent, it affects the population of sharks. It’s something
Shark finning should not be allowed since poachers are throwing away shark carcases back into the ocean wasting away the majority of meat and only keeping the fins making the shark population decline rapidly, it is also inhumane to kill any animal in such a manner, and the loss of sharks are destroying ecosystem. I completely disagree with the waste of sharks and the idea of killing mass populations of sharks for just fins, the results are more severe than one would think since other populations
Sharks has been categorized by a cartilaginous skeleton, which means they are a group of fish that have skeletons made up of cartilage, their tissues are more flexible and lighter than bones (DefendersOfWildlife, 2016). Research shows that there were more than 465 types of sharks in the ocean for the past hundred years, but unfortunately, sharks are in the danger of extinction today. This is mainly because of the slow reproducing and growing rate of shark, which leads to the dying rates are higher