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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (138797)8/18/2001 8:58:10 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (3) of 1576213
 
Jim, sadly that's not true. The sharks are being killed indiscriminately as well. Some for food, others for their supposed powers to enhance others, still others for the sport of it or because they saw the movie Jaws.

Many thousands of sharks are killed each year by humans; on the side, sharks killed, I believe, less than 200 humans last year......hardly, an example of significant revenge.


I was incorrect with my numbers when I posted the above...I am afraid I was recalling an article that I had read at least a year before.

According to John Beimer of the Associated Press, the actual number of shark attack incidents last year were 79 globally of which roughly half resulted in death. Of the 79, 34 were in Florida. Obviously these numbers were much less than the roughly 200 deaths I had suggested.

In my post I said we had killed "many thousands of sharks last year". The actual number is much greater....over 100 million. Of the hundreds of shark species only 3 species are known to attack humans...the great white, the bull and the tiger.

At the rate we are killing sharks, several of their species are getting to close to being placed on the endangered species list. David Guggenheim of The Ocean Conservancy claims that sharks play a critical role at the top of the ocean's food chain.

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