The gruesome butchering of sharks worldwide has to end before it is too late. Over 200 million sharks are brutally murdered annually simply for their highly sought fins, which are chopped off, one by one, from the live sharks. The still-living sharks, with no fins, are thrown back into the sea and left to drown in unimaginable agony and pain. This sadly very lucrative procedure has already caused a huge percentage of the shark populations to disappear. Some shark species are already wiped out forever. Since it takes so long for sharks to mature to reproductive age (some sharks mature at the age of 20 years and can live to become 70 years old), they can not recover without our immediate help. We must understand that this planet needs sharks to keep the oceans intact. We also need to learn that shark meat can be poisonous and not at all ‘cool’ to eat.
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