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Afraid FOR Sharks Teen Ink.com By Isabel Oritz – Marquez “You’re told your whole life, since you’re a kid, sharks are dangerous. You’re warned about venturing too far into the ocean, but then finally you’re underwater, and you see the thing you were taught your whole life to fear, and it’s perfect, and it doesn’t [...]

Magnificent Animals: Why Sharks are Good for the Ocean and For Us Serge Dedina By Serge Dedina Dovi Kacev grew up in South Africa and San Diego. A longtime La Jolla surfer, Dovi is finishing up a joint SDSU-UC-Davis Ph.D. in Ecology. For the past 11 years he has carried out research on shark ecology [...]

Manta Rays Fate Worse Than Sharks Discovery News By Christina Reed As the population of sharks has depleted, fishermen are turning more and more to Manta Rays – animals unfit, in the most Darwinian sense of the word, to handle the pressure. Manta Rays take 10 years to reach maturity and females give birth to [...]

Shark hunting at ‘alarming rate’ in Bali The Jakarta Post By Desy Nurhayati Marine scientists have announced that shark hunting in waters offshore Bali and surrounding areas has reached an alarming rate, threatening the animal’s population. Ketut Sarjana Putra, marine director of Conservation International Indonesia (CII), said on Tuesday that the massive catches had taken [...]

Ban on Shark Fin Soup Advances Through Asia The Wall Street Journal.com By JASON CHOW HONG KONG—A swell of opposition against shark fin soup—a traditional but increasingly controversial Chinese dish—gained backing from the luxury Shangri-La hotel chain just days before Lunar New Year, underscoring efforts world-wide to stop the hunting and trading of the endangered [...]

Who Has The Most To Fear – Man Or Shark? Shocking Infographic! By Surfmeisters.com Ever since Steven Spielberg unleashed Jaws onto the world back in 1975 Sharks have had a really bad press. Throw in the yearly world news hysteria of ‘Man gets eaten by shark on holiday’ and you have a climate of fear [...]

Voracious Demand Threatens Manta and Mobula Rays New York Times.com A few years ago, something surprising began turning up in Asia’s fish markets: the gill rakers of manta and mobula rays. Shawn Heinrichs and Paul Hilton, photographers who have been monitoring the international soaring trade in shark fins, decided to find out what was going [...]

How Do Land Birds End Up In A Tiger Shark’s Belly? NPR.org By Eyder Peralta Scientists are facing a riddle. For two years, researchers at Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama have been studying the diets of Tiger Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico and they found that the sharks not only eat sea creatures, [...]