Shark Finning
https://www.sharkwater.com/shark-education/
https://leeherald.com/2016/07/26/shutting-shark-finning-us-fishermen-promise-fight/
People may find sharks to be the most terrifying creatures of the ocean, one of the top predators of the sea, but the sad truth is that they are the ones being hunted. In some exotic food sales, poachers would cut off the fins from the top to the tail - throw the shark into waters to bleed to death. The studies estimated that 100 million sharks are killed for their fins, for every bowl of soup to be sold at a market. Because of shark finning, it has caused a great decrease in shark populations in the ecosystem.
⧫ Q u e s t i o n s ⧫
What will happen to the rest of the ecosystem if this continues?
How can we help stop the poaching?
How can this impact on the ocean itself
If this continues then there will be a surplus of fish and other sea creatures that have nothing to eat them and be afraid of. ~Gray Daitch
ReplyDeleteAt least we'll have more fish/
ReplyDeleteTrue, but this will cause the ocean to have a surplus of fish because they won't have as many predators.
Delete- Noah Wasserman
i think the government can reduce poaching if they put a poaching limit policy. Berto
ReplyDeleteif this continues, the disease could possibly cause sharks to be not be able to reproduce and could cause sharks to go extinct. which this would majorly calm nerves at the beach, other species may over populate and bottom feeders may not have enough food. - caroline
ReplyDeleteThe food chain is being disturbed when poachers kill sharks for their fins. The prey of the sharks will overgrow and become overpopulated. This will throw off the balance of the entire ecosystem.-Jeffrey
ReplyDeletewhen you kill of a species of animal you throw off the whole food chain which will lead to over population and then death of all or most species
ReplyDeleteAt least we'll have more fish
ReplyDelete-Andrew
Eventually people are going to run out of sharks, eliminating a species and destroying a business.
ReplyDelete- Noah Brockmann
if sharks keep getting killed and hunted it could throw off the balance of the food chain. with less sharks to hunt smaller fish those fish will become even more populated and whatever species they eat when then slowly become less populated cause they'res now so many small fish eating them. -kennedy
ReplyDeleteMaybe if people are more aware and educated of this brutal treatment of sharks, the prestige of the soup with diminish. -Ashley Herman
ReplyDeleteEventually we'll lose sharks
ReplyDeleteits not right to cut off sharks fins to make soup
ReplyDeleteMake it a law so people can stop killing sharks Brandon Mckinley
ReplyDeleteKilling sharks can be a bad thing because this can mess with the food chain. Jason Williams
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