Introduction
Shark finning is the removal of a shark's fins. After the fins are removed, the rest of the shark is thrown into the ocean. Sharks need their fins to swim, breath, and help them move towards their prey. Without their fins, sharks cannot live .
When the sharks are thrown back into the ocean, they immediately start to sink. They have no fins to help them swim or catch their prey. They slowly fall to them bottom of the ocean, where they will die one of three ways : suffocation, being eaten alive by other sea creatures, or starving to death. The fins are used for shark fin soup which has had a growing demand since 1997. Shark finning is wrong and inhumane. Sharks have been around since before the dinosaurs, if anything we should be trying to study their behavior and body …show more content…
You have just regained consciousness. You can hardly open your eyes and the awful stench around you makes you want to keep them shut. You're bleeding. You no longer have your arms or legs . All that remains are the bloody sockets that used to be the homes of your limbs and the dangling muscle tissue. You hear men yelling at each other in a foreign language that you cannot understand. You're scared . All of a sudden, you are being grabbed by the ends of your knee sockets and thrown into the air. SPLASH! You have just hit the ocean water and you cannot swim. Panicking, you attempt to keep your head above water . You bob and weave your neck as hard as you can, but to no avail. You start to feel yourself being pulled deeper and deeper into the ocean or what seems to be a bottomless pit. You go down further and further, fighting to breath, begging and pleading for someone to help you. Boats pass by and almost seem to move faster when they see you, as if to get away from you. Realizing you will probably get no help, you eventually stop fighting the strength of the great pull. You go down further and further and it starts to get
Shark finning is the removal of a shark's fins. After the fins are removed, the rest of the shark is thrown into the ocean. Sharks need their fins to swim, breath, and help them move towards their prey. Without their fins, sharks cannot live .
When the sharks are thrown back into the ocean, they immediately start to sink. They have no fins to help them swim or catch their prey. They slowly fall to them bottom of the ocean, where they will die one of three ways : suffocation, being eaten alive by other sea creatures, or starving to death. The fins are used for shark fin soup which has had a growing demand since 1997. Shark finning is wrong and inhumane. Sharks have been around since before the dinosaurs, if anything we should be trying to study their behavior and body …show more content…
You have just regained consciousness. You can hardly open your eyes and the awful stench around you makes you want to keep them shut. You're bleeding. You no longer have your arms or legs . All that remains are the bloody sockets that used to be the homes of your limbs and the dangling muscle tissue. You hear men yelling at each other in a foreign language that you cannot understand. You're scared . All of a sudden, you are being grabbed by the ends of your knee sockets and thrown into the air. SPLASH! You have just hit the ocean water and you cannot swim. Panicking, you attempt to keep your head above water . You bob and weave your neck as hard as you can, but to no avail. You start to feel yourself being pulled deeper and deeper into the ocean or what seems to be a bottomless pit. You go down further and further, fighting to breath, begging and pleading for someone to help you. Boats pass by and almost seem to move faster when they see you, as if to get away from you. Realizing you will probably get no help, you eventually stop fighting the strength of the great pull. You go down further and further and it starts to get