Bycatch In Commercial Hammerhead Shark

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Hi i'm hear to tell you why i chose this topic. I love animal life and so do lots of people and they don't even know it. If you love dogs cats birds or even fish than guess what,you love animals because that's what those are. But get this, every time we hunt or kill an animal we are putting them at risk of going extinct ( Animals won't ever live on this world again.) Hammerhead sharks are most endanger of being by catch or over consumption of their meat, fins and cartilage and also commercial fishing.Commercial shark-finning is a practice where sharks are caught and their fins are cut off, then the body of the shark is discarded. Defining a hammer head happens to about 100 million or more sharks around the world per year.Bycatch in commercial

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