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Sharks in Danger { 46 images } Created 20 Apr 2010

ENG: Sharks in Danger. As these dramatic images show, overfishing is dramatically reducing the worldwide shark population.

ESP: Tiburones en peligro. Como muestran estas dramaticas imagenes, la sobrepesca esta reduciendo a pasos agigantados la poblacion de tiburones del planeta.
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  • Shark finning camp, Mexico, Pacific Ocean
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  • Shark finning, Mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
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  • Finned Hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini, Mexico, Pacific Ocean
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  • Shark and hammerheads fishes in the afternoon fish market in Mboro Plage beach when the canoes arrive loaded
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  • Shark finning, Mexico, Pacific Ocean
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  • Shark finning is one of the world's most destructive fisheries . Sharks are killed needlessly, and their fins are collected for shark fin soup, Baja California, Pacific Ocean
    MCO-ENV116.jpg
  • Dutch fishing vessel fishing on the Northies for sole and flounder
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  • Dutch fishing vessel fishing on the Northies for sole and flounder
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  • Shark fin soup display
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  • Shark fins, Shark fishing camp, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
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  • Sharks are plentiful at the markets of Brunei. Unfortunately it's mainly juveniles which indicates the seas are in trouble.
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  • Shark finning is one of the world's most destructive fisheries . Sharks are killed needlessly, and their fins are collected for shark fin soup, Baja California, Pacific Ocean
    MCO-ENV118.jpg
  • Shark fins sun drying on commercial fishing vessel,  Brazil, Atlantic Ocean
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  • Shark fishing, Mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
    MCO-SHK591.jpg
  • shark fin soup,restaurant of Mandarin Oriental Hotel,15 Queen's Road Central, Hong Kong, China
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  • Shark finning camp, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
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  • Shark fishing, Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Baja California, Pacific Ocean
    MCO-SHK450.jpg
  • Most of the time the sharkfins are already cut off before the sharks hit the markets. The fins can sell for $300 per kilo while the meat only sells for $1 to 3 per kilo.
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  • Hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini, in drift gill net, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
    MCO-SHK598.jpg
  • Dead blue shark, Prionace glauca, offshore commercial longline shark fishing, Brazil, Atlantic Ocean
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  • Shark finning camp, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
    MCO-ENV224.jpg
  • Shark finning camp, Mexico, Pacific Ocean
    MCO-ENV246.jpg
  • Finned Hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini, Mexico, Pacific Ocean
    MCO-ENV262.jpg
  • A juvenile grey reef shark (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos)like this weighs only just over 1 kilo.
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  • Shark finning, Mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
    MCO-SHK590.jpg
  • Shark finning, Mako shark, Isurus oxyrinchus, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
    MCO-SHK586.jpg
  • Shark finning camp, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
    MCO-ENV226.jpg
  • Dried shark fins for sale in a tradicional chinese medicine shop in Chinatown, New York City
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  • Shark finning camp, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
    MCO-ENV228.jpg
  • Shark fishing, Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Baja California, Pacific Ocean
    MCO-SHK448.jpg
  • Shark fins drying in sun, Baja California, Mexico
    MCO-ENV110.jpg
  • Shark finning, Mexico, Pacific Ocean
    MCO-ENV232.jpg
  • Shark fin products display
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  • A juvenile hammerhead shark without fins.
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  • Longline fishing for sharks, Pacific Ocean
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  • Shark fishing, Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Baja California, Pacific Ocean
    MCO-SHK451.jpg
  • Sharks are plentiful at the markets of Brunei. Unfortunately it's mainly juveniles which indicates the seas are in trouble.
    SDNE-238.jpg
  • Shark fishing, Blue shark, Prionace glauca, Baja California, Pacific Ocean
    MCO-SHK449.jpg
  • Finned Hammerhead shark, Sphyrna lewini, Mexico, Pacific Ocean
    MCO-ENV259.jpg
  • Educating the public to the plight of sharks
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  • Thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus, in drift gill net, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
    MCO-SHK601.jpg
  • Thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus, in drift gill net, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
    MCO-SHK594.jpg
  • Fisherman with shark jaws and drying fins. Malaysia.
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  • Thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus, in drift gill net, Sea of Cortez, Mexico
    MCO-SHK595.jpg
  • Dutch fishing vessel fishing on the Northies for sole and flounder
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  • Dutch fishing vessel fishing on the Northies for sole and flounder
    TKO-AP-04281.jpg