Persuasive Essay On Shark Finning

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Since man has existed, we have fished, harvested, hunted, pillaged, and overused the seemingly endless oceans and their resources. For thousands of years the seas have been able to provide us with sustainable amounts of these resources. One of the most relevant current issues in the oceans today is the act of shark finning. Shark finning is the removal of fins, then the discarding of the finless bodies, most of the time while the sharks are still alive. Since the fins are pound for pound worth more than ten times the amount the rest of the shark bodies, it is just more economic for the fishermen to discard of the bodies at sea.
When you attempt to grasp the trillions of pounds of aquatic life that have been so crucial to the perpetuation of …show more content…

Some animals like many species of sharks do not produce a large amount of offspring in their lives and it takes some sharks many years to reach their sexual maturity.
The bottom line is that over finning is diminishing an animal population that not only will affect the entire ocean if taken too far, but also a population that is quite difficult to repopulate. In this proposal we will discuss the history and culture of shark finning, impacts, laws and regulations, and the conservation movements. Our most pressing goal in this is to educate and inform those who lack the knowledge or resources to make informed decisions on what can be conceived as too much harvesting of a 2 resource whether that resource is an abundant blade of grass or a 400 million old species that the entire aquatic ecosystem hangs on the balance of. The history and culture of shark fins is arguably the most logical explanation as to why these shark fins are being harvested well into the millions every year. Shark fins’ value stems from the invention of shark fin soup in 968 AD, by an emperor of the Sung
Dynasty. In ancient times, the soup was a delicacy only to be enjoyed by the emperor

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