Too many sharks get pointlessly slaughtered every year. This trend needs reversing before the decline of the shark population cannot recover. The extinction of sharks most likely causes an extensive reaction in the oceans ecosystem. Unfortunately, solutions to the sharks' problems become increasingly difficult to deal with because of all the variables involved.

The area where most shark killings occur, like international waters and the territor

f the coast of Tasmania killed 43,500 Blue Sharks in a ten-year period (Woog, 34). When an unwanted fish, usually a shark, becomes hooked the long-line fishermen cut the line. The shark, frequently injured from this accidental experience, becomes unable to survive on its own and soon dies. An effort to control long-liners and therefore save more sharks needs to be made by implementing strict regulations on commercial fisherman and their methods of fishing. Other dangers, such as pollution, do not kill sharks with the same efficiency as commercial fishing.

For big businesses to stop dumping their waste into the ocean, they need to find somewhere else to put it. This task can be extremely expensive and burdensome but it needs to be done to stop sharks from becoming extinct. Some pollution cannot be stopped, despite being man made, like oil spills. There will never be a time when pollution is not in the ocean, but it becomes increasingly possible to cut down on the amount of pollution presently being released into the ocean. Enforcing existing regulations is a good start to stopping pollution. Another way to help cut down on pollution is to perform yearly inspections of large factories to make sure that their waste become nonpolluting.

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an be used as sandpaper or to fabricate elegant clothing. The use of sharkskin can clearly be seen throughout the ages. In medieval times, warriors would wrap the hilt of their swords in sharkskin so that they could get a good grip when the hilt was bloodied in battle. Sharks have become a valued commodity all over the world, because of their variety of uses.

Sharks remain a vital part of man's greatest resource. As the top predators of the ocean they keep everything in order. It requires only a small price for the world to pay for sharks to continue to silently lurk the depths of the ocean. Little action to date taken by the governments of the world brings the sharks closer to extinction every day. Sharks' declining populations can only be solved if countries and business owners decide to work together to eradicate this situation. Hopefully, some time in the near future, the public, realizing the importance of sharks to the ocean, pressures governments of the world to take action. For the sharks to continue to swim freely in the ocean's waters and preserve their majesty at the top of the food chain, the populations of the world need to unite in their demand for preservation and conservation.

The Great White, the largest of all sharks, sometimes reaches up to eighteen feet in length. Centuries of legends and a 1970s film, by the name of "Jaws," have given the Great White and many other sharks a sinister reputation. A majority of the public views sharks as ferocious, man-eating monsters of the sea. Unknown until recently, studies have shown that sharks are of great importance to the ocean's ecosystem. Fear, and lack of information sometimes cause people to kill sharks without knowing the amount of damage they do to the ecosystem. The public's view of sharks needs to be changed. Worried scientis

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