last call to action which involves shark finning. Brian Walsh is a writer from Time magazine and he did an article on Sharks and how they are becoming extinct as the years go on. “International Union for the conversation of Nature estimates that as many as a third of all shark species are threatened or near threatened with extinction.” Sharks have been around for millions and millions of years, they’re magnificent creatures that many people like to marvel at. If sharks were not around things…
Sharks: Finning and Management As the human population continues to increase, the demand for food also increases. An estimated 15 percent of consumed animal protein come from marine fish, and an overall 90 percent of the predatory fish, at the top of the food chain, are declining (Human, n.d). Hammerhead sharks, particularly scalloped hammerheads are the most threatened because of their fins and meat. The methods used for capturing this rare species are wasteful and cruel, and their decline is…
DNA samples were extracted from sixteen unidentified shark tissue specimens and underwent PCR amplification of CO1 mitochondrial gene. DNA samples were assessed for presence and quality using agarose gel electrophoresis. Species identification was performed by importing finalized CO1 sequences into two DNA databases to ensure accurate identification. Phylogenic analysis was then conducted to determine relationships between identified species. Electrophoresis Electrophoresis of DNA run in 2%…
What animals do you think of when you think of the ocean? Maybe a shark or some coral reefs, now what animals do you think of in Africa, maybe a gorilla or an elephant and a rhino. Well you may have to start thinking about different animals, because thanks to illegal animal poaching these animals may be extinct in our lifetime based on the amount of illegal poaching that is happening. When I heard this news my jaw hit the floor, but thanks to illegal animal poaching of endangered animals this…
For instance, the lobster paper is much lengthier than the whale shark paper. The whale shark paper also looks more like an article than the lobster paper does. The lobster paper is clearly broken up into different sections, including the abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, and conclusions. However, the whale shark paper is not broken up into these sections. The fact that the whale shark paper is in condensed format makes it harder to find where the hypothesis…
with sharks, interviewing people, and he narrates the entire film. He travels to Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands to show us that sharks aren’t the deadly creatures we make them out to be, yet over one hundred billion are killed annually. The thesis of this film is clear when Stewart says how, “the one animal we fear the most is the one we cannot live without.” Our understanding of sharks is mediatized and completely inaccurate. Not even twenty minutes into the film and you can see sharks…
on sharks? Would you be for? Or against this action? From my perspective, a culling would do nothing but lower the numbers of sharks, but not the numbers of attacks. Good morning/afternoon Mrs. Arnold and fellow classmates. Today I would like to talk to you about the situation we have with the amount of shark attacks and fatalities. There are my main reasons for being against a culling of the shark population. Firstly, statistics show that there is no increase in fatalities, secondly sharks…
Thresher shark. Its tail is shaped like a thresher, and the shark uses it as a weapon to stun its prey. Since this shark is an active predator, its tail should not only be used as a weapon, but also a great source of propulsion. In order to design and compare a fin to this extraordinary shark tail, a simple trapezoid was created to set a base model. Its dimensions are as follow: This fin is the base model designed to set the first data of propulsion, so that it could be compared to the shark…
people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but you’re more likely to be killed by your kitchen toaster than a shark!”. The odds of being killed by a shark is 1 in 3,748,067 as stated by thewildlifemuseum.com and if the world continues to kill sharks, they will disappear from our ecosystem and topple the food chain. In the articles, “What Do You Know About Sharks?” by Sharon Guynup and “Great White Sharks” by Peter Benchley along…
just a camera as the shark builds upon suspense of the shark looking for victims, it shows how we are more scared of the things we cannot see like the shark instead of things we can see, in the beginning of the movie we didn't see a shark but halfway through we see the shark which reaffirms the fear. The unexpected of the movie is the shark’s whereabouts and its appearances in the movies, when the the Captain Quint shot the arrows tied to a barrel to keep track of the shark and then the barrels…