And because I love sharks I'm somewhat obsessed with sharks I wanted to do another, more celebratory, story about sharks, as a way of talking about the need for shark conservation.

These are the tuna, the billfish and the sharks.

And there are sharks.

Man Bites Shark

RP Silvertip sharks they're actually three species of sharks here.

Recognizing further the economic and cultural importance of sharks in many countries, the biological importance of sharks in the marine ecosystem, the vulnerability of some shark species to over exploitation and the need for measures to promote the long term sustainability of shark populations and fisheries,

Up there, you have sharks and large fish that live 25, 30 years.

And I flew over a lagoon with a shark in it, and that was the day that my comic strip about a shark was born.

And I was particularly fascinated with sharks.

Sherman's up in shark heaven.

The varieties landed are tuna, bonito, mackerel, squid, shark, lobster and shrimp.

We're often all frightened of sharks thanks to Jaws.

The silvertips are the one with the white edges on the fin, and there're also gray reef sharks and some hammerheads off in the distance.

Most of the turtles, sharks, tunas and whales are way down in numbers.

We didn't see a single shark.

I also wanted to focus on the shark fishing industry because, currently on planet Earth, we're killing over 100 million sharks every single year.

Jim Toomey Learning from Sherman the shark

You can see sharks in every single dive.

They're the second largest fish in the world.

Longlines are also one of the main threats to the survival of sharks and billfish.

But before I went out to photograph this component, I sort of wrestled with the notion of how do you make a picture of a dead shark that will resonate with readers You know, I think there's still a lot of people out there who think the only good shark is a dead shark.

Go up in your boat and tag the shark.

Salmon sharks aren't the only sharks we tag.

Speaking of dinosaurs, sharks are basically the same fish they were 300 million years ago.

Namun dalam beberapa dekade saja, seperempat jenis hiu dan pari terancam punah. Kejadian ini timbul karena kesalahan kita sendiri dan menjadi tanggung jawab kita untuk memperbaikinya.

This is probably the biggest threat to sharks worldwide it is the finning of sharks.

This one was taken at the exact moment I was down there filming those sharks.

He was saying to me, Over there you've got sharks.

You've got more sharks and you've got tigers.

Recent studies have documented the rapid decline of large predatory fish species such as billfish, sharks and tuna.

And of course, sharks, fish, are underwater most of the time.

There is especially high demand in foreign markets for tuna, shark, lobster and shrimp.

And sharks we had sharks on our early dives, up to 150 sharks at once, which is an indication of a very, very healthy, very strong, system.

A study by the Australian Marine Institute found that Palau s shark diving industry is worth far more than its shark fishing industry. A single reef shark that frequents major dive sites in Palau is worth roughly 179,000 annually, or 1.9 million over its lifetime the same shark would be worth about 108 dead.

So what we've done is actually gone up to tag salmon shark in Alaska, met salmon shark on their home territory, followed them catching salmon and then went in and figured out that, if we take a salmon and put it on a line, we can actually take up a salmon shark This is the cousin of the white shark and very carefully note, I say very carefully, we can actually keep it calm, put a hose in its mouth, keep it off the deck and then tag it with a satellite tag.

The species of shark responsible for the attack was unknown.

I had to kill my main character, who is a shark.

Simon Berrow How do you save a shark you know nothing about?

And sunfish is one of the words for basking sharks.

We kill about 100 million sharks a year.

Look at that lovely, black shark slime.

This is a very sort of un shark like photograph.

It's not what you typically might think of as a shark picture.

The Convention s memorandum of understanding on shark conservation, which lists seven endangered species, has attracted 35 signatories so far. Next month, representatives from these countries will meet in Quito, Ecuador, to discuss extending the list to include the great and scalloped hammerheads, the silky shark, thresher sharks, sawfish, and mobula rays.

We have more sharks, more biomass of snappers, more biomass of herbivores, too, like these parrot fish that are like marine goats.