Dorsal fin

Stop Shark-Finning! Why kill a whole shark for its fins in order to make shark fin soup, a tasteless and expensive soup just to impress your friends? Every year human beings kill over 102 million sharks while less than 10 people are killed by sharks, yet we call them bloody killers (Fairclough 1). This has created a drastic reduction in their numbers, and it is feared that it may lead to their extinction, causing a life imbalance on the planet’s ecosystem. Governments and environmental…

Degree in Business Accounting Mr. Anizan Sulaiman Thursday 3:00 pm class Argumentative essay People should stop eating or consuming shark fin soup Do you agree fin soup is unhealthy ? Does it effect the environment? How many sharks being killed because of fin soup ? Shark finning is the process of cutting sharks fins and make soup from it is known as shark fin soup it is considered as a part of Chinese culture while test come from soup ingredients. It is commonly served at special occasions…

APES Extra Credit Assignment PG 5 IN THE GULF OF MEXICO, ENSURING A FUTURE FOR SHRKS People are killing so many sharks for fins, and it causes them to get closer and closer to extinct. Sharks are important to marine ecosystem, because they play a key role in climate change and food webs. Some countries ignore the importance of control the amount of sharks, which they eat and sell for money, they catch. In order to help the population of sharks to go up, EDF and Mote Marine Laboratory of…

a long cylindrical body with a large mouth and sharp teeth. They also have enlarged scales on their head. They are often mistaken for a similar native fish species, the bowfin. Ways to tell them apart: Snakehead’s anal fin is long, bowfin’s anal fin is short. Snakehead’s pelvic fin is almost under their…

little to no enemies, humans have been over hunting sharks for their fins and then throwing them back out into the ocean. Without their fin sharks would not be able to swim and would slowly sink to the bottom of the ocean and die, waiting for something to either eat them or drown to death. As someone who once enjoyed drinking shark fin soup after finding out what happens to the shark and the life that they have after their fins get cut off I can only feel guilty for enjoying an animal's death.…

When I was about fourteen years old, I saw the movie Jaws for the first time. I remember being fascinated with the story and loving every second of the film, however, it did give me a deep fear of the ocean and of sharks in general. At the time I did not realize and understand that sharks were very misunderstood creatures; I was under the impression that they were all dangerous and should be feared. People assume that they are more likely to be killed by a shark, but it is actually the other way…

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…

the case of the dorsal fin of a salmon and the dorsal fin observable in a dolphin, these structures are analogous of one another since they did not evolve directly from the same common…

At SeaWorld, “all male orcas have collapsed dorsal fins as adults” (10 Things You). Collapsed dorsal fins are yet another indication of the neglection orcas receive at SeaWorld. Collapsed dorsal fins “are caused by the unnatural environment of captivity and are rarely seen in the wild” (10 Things You). It is uncommon for the ordinary orca to have a collapsed dorsal fin, as Tilikum does. The collapsed dorsal fin shows the symptoms of an unhealthy and unhappy orca. Orcas demonstrate…

swordfish preferred dorsal fins of smaller size, since males with larger dorsal fins tend to have more aggressive behaviors than other. Robinson, Tudor, and Morris had hypothesized that if Fisher & Rosenthal’s statement was true that the female swordfish would prefer the average swordfish dorsal fin to that of the larger sized fin. They also explored in depth how the dorsal fin had a correlation to the courtship of this species by predicted that males would raise their dorsal fins around females…