It sounds unbelievable, but it is bitter reality. For many shark species, time has already run out. According to a North Atlantic study by Dalhousie University in Halifax, an average of 80% of all deep-sea sharks have disappeared over the last six years - hunted, caught, finned! And in this case, “disappear” means forever! This is because the extremely low reproduction rate of sharks combined with the immense pressure from the fishing industry to catch them doesn’t allow the populations any chance to regenerate or even to enjoy a brief respite.
An estimated 200 million sharks are killed worldwide a year – 500,000 every day – and most of these are killed in an indescribably cruel fashion. This is a dramatic overexploitation of shark populations and a form of tampering with the largest ecosystem of the world that can never be undone – with far-reaching and dramatic consequences for our children and our children’s children.
If we don’t act now, the seas will die off within just a few decades and with them, 70% of the means for generating oxygen on our planet.

| 6.4.2008 | Read more |

In the marine ecosystem sharks are on top of the food chain, this means that they eat other marine creatures and through this grab all contained toxins. Substances that - once assimilated degrading only very little in the animals organism – are passed on after their death to their eater.

| 31.8.2008 | Read more |