West coast Quote by Narin Raksmei PhD

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

Weve found that these white sharks return to the same regions of the coast year after year. It is this fact that makes it…

— Narin Raksmei PhD

Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts,…

— Brian Skerry

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

— Barbara Block

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

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

— Peter Benchley

Sharks are declining globally ...

— Barbara Block

“Sharks are the most hardy and adaptable of any large animal ever created by evolution. Some smaller species like lampreys, horseshoe crabs, sponges, and…

— Morten A. Strøksnes

There are fewer than 350 great white sharks in the western U.S. coastal waters.

— Narin Raksmei PhD

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

We still have 10 percent of the sharks. We still have half of the coral reefs. However, if we wait another 50 years, opportunities…

— Sylvia Earle

I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks. But I think it's beginning to…

— Brian Skerry