Driven Quote by Sylvia Earle

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

— Barbara Block

I famously tasted shark fin soup many, many years ago before we understood exactly what was going on with the harvesting of sharks. I've…

— Andrew Zimmern

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

Many people continue to think of sharks as man-eating beasts. Sharks are enormously powerful and wild creatures, but youre more likely to be killed…

— Ted Danson

Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup -…

— Ted Danson

The value of sharks' lives is now widely understood to be more important than their value as products. And when you have sharks in…

— Sylvia Earle

I don't like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about…

— David Duchovny

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

— Peter Benchley

Most people don't know that humans kill 100 million sharks every year, mostly for a really expensive soup in Asia.

— Michael Muller

I do my very best to avoid shark fin.

— Anthony Bourdain

“You can't make shark fin soup without water”

— J.P. Patches

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