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[10] [11] Sharks are often killed for shark fin soup, which some Asian countries regard as a status symbol. [12] Fishermen capture live sharks, fin them, and dump the finless animal back into the water to die from suffocation or predators. [11] [13] Sharks are also killed for their flesh in Europe and elsewhere. [14]
Shark finning has caused catastrophic harm to the marine ecosystem. [14] Roughly 73 to 100 million sharks are killed each year by finning. [14] [15] A variety of shark species are threatened by shark finning, including the critically endangered scalloped hammerhead shark. [15]
In the first 11 months of 2013, 633 sharks were captured in Queensland—more than 95% of those sharks were killed. [1] From 2013 to 2014, 667 sharks were killed on Queensland's drum lines and in shark nets, including great white sharks and critically endangered grey nurse sharks. [11] From 2014 to 2015, 621 sharks were killed in Queensland. [29]
harks attacked people 98 times in 2015, a spike in unprovoked attacks that set a new record as human and shark populations rise, researchers found.
Between September 2017 and April 2018, 403 animals were killed in the nets in New South Wales, including 10 critically endangered grey nurse sharks, 7 dolphins, 7 green sea turtles, and 14 great white sharks. [70] Between 1950 and 2008, 352 tiger sharks and 577 great white sharks were killed in the nets in New South Wales.
Many types of life live within the waters including fish, octopus, sea slugs, large amounts of kelp, and sharks that are not found anywhere else in the world. Among those sharks is an elusive type ...
Shark research is hard to get funding for, in part, because sharks aren’t a commercial species. Yet the irony is that they affect commercial species, namely fish populations.
Every year, millions of sharks are killed by driftnets, by-catch, revenge actions, beach protective shark meshing, commercial-, recreational- and spear-fishing. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] The main risk is from by-catch of indirect methods of line fishing and particularly bottom-set commercial fishing lines targeting wobbegong sharks.