Shark Finning

1. Shark Finning Jacob Buxton Both the legal and illegal catching, killing, and finning of thousands of sharks each year.

2. Shark Fin Soup The finning of sharks is supported mostly by two groups. These groups are the fishermen who make money from finning and selling the sharks and the common people who like to eat the soup made from the fins. If shark finning continues, the only advantage would be that these people continue to make money and have shark fin soup to eat. The disadvantages of shark finning continuing are on the next slide.

3. Disadvantages of Shark Finning • Some disadvantages include: • Many species of shark are becoming endangered, and even extinct, because of shark finning continuing. • Animals like sea turtles and dolphins are caught in the long lines primarily used to catch sharks in large numbers. • These animals are usually killed and thrown back into the ocean. • If shark finning continues, most all species of shark will eventually become extinct

6. California’s anti-shark fin ban In 2011, Californian Governor Jerry Brown signed bill AB376, banning the trade, sale and possession of shark fins. Similar bans have been placed in Hawaii, Washington, Oregon and Guam. The bill went into effect on January 1st, 2012. Jerry Brown isn’t the only one against shark finning. The Humane Society of the United states and the International Humane Society supported the ban, along with hundreds of Californians and scientists. According to Jennifer Fearing, the Humane Society's California director, "Sharks need their fins, and we don't. The momentum to protect sharks globally has taken a huge step forward."

8. EndingShark Finning Disadvantages Fishermen and restaurant owners will make less money. Advantages • Shark populations will begin to return to where they once were. • If shark finning doesn’t stop, sharks will become extinct. • This will cause an over-population of the fish they eat, causing them to eat their prey into extinction, then die off because their food is gone.

10. Stop Shark Finning • My opinion about shark finning is that it needs to stop. • At the rate we are killing the sharks, there won’t be any left. • Without sharks, the oceanic ecosystem will crumble. • That will mean that a lot of the seafood that you love to eat will go extinct.

11. The Solution • Shark finning has been going on for so long, there is no one solution. Many things have to be done. Some are: • Banning the sale and possession of shark fins. This one has already started to happen. • People worldwide have to stop eating Shark Fin Soup. This will stop the profitable sale of the soup. • Long line fishing has to be banned. Long line fishing kills not only sharks, but also other marine life, like sea turtles and dolphins. • Laws against shark finning have to be enforced, or underground shark finning will prosper.

12. What can YOU do? Everybody can help the movement by not eating or buying Shark Fin Soup. You can send petitions to your local, state, or even to the national government. You can start a movement in your local school, church, workplace, or where ever you want to.

13. Video Anti-shark finning video

14. Shark Fin Poem If we want to save the shark We don’t need to use an ark If we want to save these gems We’ll have to stop finning them Let’s save the shark, and leave our mark.