Balance Quote by Brian Skerry

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

— Peter Benchley

We still have the illusion that the ocean will recover. That even if we do have to lose sharks, people don't understand why this…

— Sylvia Earle

We are already perilously close to killing off the top of the oceanic food chain - with catastrophic consequences that we can't begin to…

— Peter Benchley

Unless we stop the degradation of our oceans, marine ecological systems will begin collapsing and when enough of them fail, the oceans will die.…

— Paul Watson

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

— Barbara Block

I think sharks are beautiful creatures, and I don't think we should stop going in the ocean because of them. You drive down the…

— Bethany Hamilton

To the naked eye, our oceans are beautiful. But scientists tell us that all of the world's fisheries will collapse by 2048, unless we…

— Ted Danson

Lose the sharks, the mighty, mysterious lords of the deep, and our planet's oceans would be infinitely poorer places.

— Steve Backshall

If the world's oceans have had nearly half a billion years with sharks as the apex predators, then the delicate balance of its food…

— Steve Backshall

If we keep on destroying fish, there won't be any left. If the oceans die, we all die. It's as simple as that.

— Sylvie Guillem

Sharks are declining globally ...

— Barbara Block

Some eco groups suggest that as many as 73 million sharks are killed globally every year. Hammerheads, blue sharks, mako sharks - they're disappearing,…

— Stephen Rodrick