Jaws why can we be friends

While Bruce — the mutant great white in the original Jaws movie — killed five people in two hours of screen time, sharks kill only around four people each year. More people die taking selfies than they do during encounters with this toothy megafauna.

Yet humans kill more than million sharks annually, killing them for their fins, hunting them and catching them by accident — known as bycatch — in large-scale fishery operations. Among them is the particularly unusual member that Ste Marie studies: the Greenland shark, an elusive deep-diving species whose oldest members have been swimming around since the s.

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How marsh grass could help protect us from climate change Coastal marsh plants provide significant protection from surges and devastating storms. David L. Research groups around the world began dedicating their work to uncovering the cryptic behaviour of these animals. We learnt of their incredible feats of transoceanic migrations , complex 3-dimensional movements and intricate population structuring.

These revelations were made across the shark species, from freshwater to the deep-sea. Turns out, not all sharks were formidable apex predators and we very quickly realised that few species actually posed any threat to us whatsoever. The most alarming of all scientific discoveries however, would capsize everything we thought we knew about our relationship with sharks. Sharks are key predators within ocean habitats and are, in turn, vital components within these environments.

Removal of sharks from the oceans can have disastrous effects that reverberate throughout an ecosystem. Unfortunately, sharks were under decline. With post-film popularity in trophy hunting and an on-going global expansion of fisheries, sharks were being removed from the ocean at an unprecedented rate.