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A global study reveals pathways to save threatened sharks . . . They found total shark fishing mortality increased from 76 million to 80 million sharks per year even though protective legislation to reduce finning increased more than 10-fold during the same time More than 30% of this catch was for species currently threatened with extinction
Shark Finning: Sharks Turned Prey - Smithsonian Ocean Between 1 3 and 2 7 million of just these two sharks are killed every year in the shark fin trade, and the northwestern Atlantic population of the scalloped hammerhead declined from around 155,500 in 1981 to 26,500 in 2005 Today, some shark populations have decreased by 60-70% due to human shark fisheries
Shark Populations Rapid Decline Explained - Animals Around . . . The Grim Ratio For every unfortunate human claimed by a shark, an estimated 16 million sharks fall victim to human activities annually This stark disproportion highlights the urgent need for conservation efforts
ScienceShot: The Great Shark Massacre | Science | AAAS Now, researchers have created the first global estimate of the carnage By combining data from fisheries organizations and the scientific literature, the team reports in Marine Policy that 97 million sharks were killed in 2010 and perhaps as many as 273 million
What’s in the Net – Millions of turtles, seals, dolphins . . . Hundreds of thousands of endangered marine animals are dying unnecessarily every year as a result of being accidentally caught in fishing nets, according to a new report by WWF and Sky Ocean Rescue The What’s in the Net [1] study documents that at least 720,000 seabirds, 300,000 cetaceans, 345,000 seals and sealions, and over 250,000 turtles die after being caught in fisheries around the
Facts | Seaspiracy Website However, this has given us the opportunity to learn new; that t he most current worldwide analysis estimates the bycatch of at least 8 5 Million sea turtles in a seventeen-year period - meaning, a shocking ∼500,000 sea turtles every year: