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"An award-winning scientist and science educator takes readers on a tour of the world of shark research and conservation, explaining how to protect the world's most misunderstood animals and why we should do so"--
I have always found sharks awesome and enjoy seeing them as well as learning about them. It was therefore delightful to learn from marine biologist David Shiffman measures that can be taken to save the many different species of sharks on earth. This book is so good because it’s thorough with a massive amount of information based on science about shark conservation, yet it is easy to read with its explanations and a sprinkling of the author’s wonderful sense of humor. ( )
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And it “won’t leave”? Where do you want it to go? It lives in the ocean!
My mother reported that she was afraid to go swimming in a lake after first seeing Jaws.
Apparently you can’t say the F-word on CNN, no matter how angry you are about incredibly irresponsible and inaccurate shark information airing on the Disney Channel…
I once had a fascinating (albeit extremely troubling) conversation with an animal welfare activist who told me that he doesn’t care if species go extinct a long as individuals in that species don’t experience unnecessary pain while humans drive their numbers to zero.
A lot of animal welfare concerns for fish (including but not limited to sharks) boil down to a simple question: Do fish feel pain? If you ask some of the folks I’ve had to block on Twitter over the years, they’ll tell you that of course fish feel pain because all living things feel pain, and anyone who says otherwise is a cruel monster. Once I was called a Nazi war criminal for questioning this, which odd perhaps not a great thing to say to a Jewish man who lost family in the Holocaust.
Because a single shark can go through thousands of teeth in its lifetime, shark tooth necklaces are not a shark conservation concern. Nor is the use of black shark teeth in jewelry an ethical issue: the colt reveals that these teeth are fossilized and any shark they came from has been dead for tens of thousands of years.
Of course, even if sharks were immune to cancer, eating shark wouldn’t cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make me better at basketball.
For example, following a series of shark bites in the North Carolina Outer Banks, Bogue Inlet, a fishing pier in Emerald Isle, announced a ban on shark fishing.
And the Greenland shark, which can live to be over 400 years old, doesn’t reach sexual maturity until around age 150! Imagine going through puberty for as long as the modern nation of Canada has existed—that’s what life is like for a Greenland shark.
Baby shark
Doo doo, doo doo doo doo.
—Lyrics of a popular song that is much older than you think * (Don’t hate me—you know this had to go in this book somewhere.)
*The Pinkfong version that parents know and love is only about five years old as of this writing, but the song itself dates back over a century. I sang it at summer camp as a kid, and I don’t mean Seacamp. We learned the song at J&R Jewish Day Camp in Pittsburgh in the 1990s.
As you might imagine, such permissive policies encourage fishers to engage in creative machinations to report that a live shark was actually dead.
SAI has been involved in just about every major science-based conservation policy discussion since my parents said I was too young to watch Jaws
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"An award-winning scientist and science educator takes readers on a tour of the world of shark research and conservation, explaining how to protect the world's most misunderstood animals and why we should do so"--
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