Alaska Born ~ Oregon Grown
Quite a few laws prohibiting shark finning.
http://www.sharksavers.org/en/our-pr...tecting-sharks
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
For one thing, they keep prey populations under control and maintain a balance. Removing the top of the food machine will have effects throughout the ecosystem (I hate that word).
Whoever criticizes capitalism, while approving immigration, whose working class is its first victim, had better shut up. Whoever criticizes immigration, while remaining silent about capitalism, should do the same.
~Alain de Benoist
Peter1469 (08-05-2017)
They are the ultimate custodian of the ocean. Injured marine life, sick marine life, dying marine life, even healthy life are all kept in check by sharks, and even sharks keep other sharks in check. They eat much more than just fish as well, especially depending on the shark, and the hundreds of different shark species spread amongst millions of square miles of ocean in all corners of the planet keeps the ocean as a whole balanced. Biodiversity in our oceans is dependent on a healthy and balanced ecosystem. If you remove sharks, or any keystone species really, from an ecosystem then the biodiversity within it is harmed, in some cases destroyed.
Hundreds of millions of sharks are being killed per year by people to satisfy the fishing industry, black market trading, traditional medicines, and so on. We kill faster than the rate of reproduction and we give no time for the affected habitat to recover from the loss. Many of these shark species migrate thousands of miles a year to get to breeding grounds and feeding grounds which means they aren't staying in one little microhabitat, they travel across entire pelagic zones, and not just across but also at different depths from jus off shore where humans play to hundreds of feet down to the darkness for food. And so if they are gone, or even significantly reduced, then entire zones of the ocean can be affected by OUR actions.
Last edited by Chloe; 08-05-2017 at 06:47 PM.
Alaska Born ~ Oregon Grown