The End of the International Year of the Shark
PRESS RELEASE The Let Sharks Live Network The Shark Group December 31, 2009 2009: THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF THE SHARK ENDS The International Year of the Shark, 2009 , is ending, and the creators, The Shark Group and The Let Sharks Live Network , consider it a fantastic success. It was inspired by findings of The Global Shark Assessment that at current rates of decline, the most threatened shark species will be extinct in 10 to 15 years. In large regions, species that were once numerous have fallen to 1% of their original numbers. The massacre is comparable to that of the buffalo on the North American plains 200 years ago, but on a much larger scale. Yet these highly evolved and intelligent animals, also called the 'Wolves of the Sea' are still fished intensively, and barbarically finned alive, their bodies thrown back to die, for the shark fin soup market. Shark finning has only been practiced intensively since the 1980's, yet has already nearly succee...