This is a PowerPoint regarding the depletion of shark species.

There are many ways as to why they are dying.

This PowerPoint will show you how.

By Shelby Elonis

Who are we to say what lives and what dies?

In 1996, there were 198,842 people injured by nails, screws, tacks, and bolts.

Only 13 were injured by a shark.

*Caught in lines intended for fish*Fishermen often catch tuna and swordfish, sharks, sea turtles and dugongs in the nets*Nets are also illegally killing dolphins and seals*Use sharks for fins, cartilage, liver oil and teeth*As many as 100,000 sharks die as a result

SHARK NETTING

*Most serious issue facing shark populations*Sharks grow very slowly and take long time to reach sexual maturity*Produce few offspring

OVERFISHING*Leave them vulnerable to overexploitation*Slow to recover from depletion*Endangers several species in coastal areas

SHARK FIN SOUP*Catch sharks, remove fins, discard shark overboard to die *Believe Soup provides health benefits*From 1985-1999, the fin import rose 214%*Estimate of 10,000,000 sharks are killed per year for fins*USA has banned shark finning*Still practiced in places like South America and Australia

**Shark Conservation Campaign○ -Helps individuals become educated about sharks

-Addresses the issues involving diminishing numbers

● **National Marine Fisheries Service-Prevent overfishing; monitor to know how much fish is being caught

**Pew Oceans Commission-Establish protection, maintain and restore the health of

marine ecosystems-Propose to establish source of funding for ocean and

coastal management

CONSERVATION

Conservation

"If I have one hope, it is that we will come to appreciate and protect these wonderful animals before we manage, through ignorance, stupidity and greed, to wipe them out altogether."

--Peter Benchley, author of Jaws--

"Fisheries Conservation Foundation." Fisheries Conservation Foundation. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://www.fisheriesconservationfoundation.org/campaigns/shark.html>.

"Global Shark Conservation." The Pew Charitable Trusts - Non Profit Organization Serving the Public. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://www.pewtrusts.org/our_work_detail.aspx?id=140>.

"ReefQuest Centre for Shark Research Home." ReefQuest Centre for Shark Research Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://www.elasmo-research.org/>.

"Save Our Sharks - Welcome." Save Our Sharks. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://www.saveoursharks.com.au/Save_Our_Sharks_-_Welcome.html>.

"Why Are Sharks Endangered | SEEtheWILD." SEEtheWILD Wildlife Tours | SEEtheWILD. N.p., n.d. Web. 29 Oct. 2012. <http://www.seethewild.org/15/shark-threats.html>.

Works Cited

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Linsday Reynolds-On slide 8 if there are links to those organisation you might want to embed them into the power point.

Rachel Grundl, freshman, marine biology/environmental writing, there are a few grammatical errors on some slides, so if you could look them over that'd be good. Overall, however, I thought your presentation was very nicely done and put together very well.

Owen Bastille, sophomore, Biology/Environments & the Arts, very good with slide design and visuals, a little sparce on content and NO bibliography, might want to add links for the viewers to check out. Good Job, though!

Daina Baldwin, Junior Captive Wildlife Care and Education- I thought it was very well layed out. I learned things that I did not know about catching sharks & what they were used for. A bibliography would be nice so we could look up more things. But overall great job!! (:

Allie Pesano, Sophomore, Wildlife Biology: Looks like a great topic to be presenting about and the powerpoint is visually appealing! However, if this is going to be an oral presentation I wouldn't put as much text in the informational slide, just general bullet points, and then elaborate on those bullet points during your presentation to really show you know what you are talking about rather than just reading from slides!

Mandy Bonilla Sophmore, Marine Bio: i put ( ) any where i felt needed to be extended. Good luck

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