Process: Plunging Population: the History of Shark Finning

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was pushed upon by Shark Allies and the Humane Society, who can help Shark finning is the practice of slicing off the shark’s fins while the shark other activities design legislation for their own states. Hawaii could even How to add Text Need assistance? Call us at 1.510.649.3001 The History of shark finning goes back to as far as AD 968, where the The template comes with a number of pre- is still alive then throwing it’s body back in the water where it then As predators, sharks can shift their prey’s habitat, which alters the feeding be a model for the whole United States. Back in 2009, there was a law story goes that shark fin soup was created by an emperor in the Sung formatted placeholders for headers and text struggles for days as it lies at the bottom of the ocean, slowly dying. strategy and diets of other species around them. Through the controls and proposed for a shark conservation Act but is now being thought about Dynasty who wanted to show how powerful, wealthy and generous he was blocks. You can add more blocks by copying and Sharks have always been feared by humans for their hunting instincts ever abundance of their space, sharks indirectly maintain the seagrass and coral today, 2018. Sea Stewards’ Shark Sanctuary in San Francisco campaign is since people first observed them swimming, yet today, sharks are declining to his banquet guests. Serving the expensive dish came to be seen as a sign reefs habitat, and the loss of sharks has had major impacts on the coral pasting the existing ones or by adding a text box QUICK START petitioning the city to stop sales of shark fins and products. from the HOME menu. rapidly on a global scale because humans have become the hunters instead of respect. That is why today shark fin soup is still looked upon as a reefs, seagrass beds and also the loss of commercial fisheries. By taking

of the hunted. It is illegal in many states, but there are many ways to get delicacy and can sell up to around $65 for each bowl. sharks out of the coral reef ecosystem, the large predatory fish, such as the Zoom in and out your hands on it. One thing that shark fins are used for is shark fin soup, groupers, will increase and feed on the herbivores. With less herbivores, Text size As you work on your poster zoom in and out to the level which is a high Chinese cultural symbol. Chinese emperors favored shark macroalgae will expand, making it harder for the coral reefs to grow and Adjust the size of your text based on how much content you have to that is more comfortable to you. fin soup because they believed it to have medicinal benefits when eaten.\ function properly. present. The default template text offers a good starting point. Follow Go to VIEW > ZOOM. the conference requirements.

Title, Authors, and Affiliations A hammer head shark whose fins have How to add Tables To add a table from scratch go to the INSERT menu and Start designing your poster by adding the title, the names of the authors, been cut off, now he floats to the bottom click on TABLE. A drop-down box will help you select rows and the affiliated institutions. You can type or paste text into the of the ocean where he will die a long and columns. provided boxes. The template will automatically adjust the size of your painful death (Bali Animal Welfare You can also copy and a paste a table from Word or another PowerPoint text to fit the title box. You can manually override this feature and Association, 2017) document. A pasted table may need to be re-formatted by RIGHT-CLICK > change the size of your text. FORMAT SHAPE, TEXT BOX, Margins.

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The extremely unfortunate process begins by catching sharks and very How to change the column configuration Adding Logos / Seals Shark finning started close to the 14th century and has continued to this quickly slicing their desired fins off, usually in single motions, before the Resources RIGHT-CLICK on the poster background and select LAYOUT to see the Most often, logos are added on each side of the title. You can insert a day. Since then the population of sharks has decreased numerously, rest of the shark is discarded back into the water at sea. This process is column options available for this template. The poster columns can also logo by dragging and dropping it from your desktop, copy and paste or by alongside poaching as well. But many experts have estimated that over 100 done to maximally utilize the space of the catching vessel by only be customized on the Master. VIEW > MASTER. going to INSERT > PICTURES. Logos taken from web sites are likely to be million sharks are killed each year due to humans. But according to the collecting the most valuable body parts, the fins. Although the process of low quality when printed. Zoom it at 100% to see what the logo will look International Union for the Conservation of Natures Shark Specialist • “What Is Shark Finning?” Stop Shark Finning, 3 June 2013, shark finning is quick for the collector, the shark is left to die an incredibly like on the final poster and make any necessary adjustments. Group, 28 percent of shark species are at high levels of risk of extinction. The above image shows the negative affects on the oceans ecosystem www.stopsharkfinning.net/what-is-shark-finning/ How to remove the info bars slow and painful death. Shark finning is a torturous and traumatizing An estimated 100 million sharks are killed annually, Scientists and other without them. If you are working in PowerPoint for Windows and have finished your practice and is inhumane for multiple reasons. Sharks are cartilaginous TIP: See if your school’s logo is available on our free poster templates researchers have estimated 20 million or more per every fatal shark attack. • Fairclough, Caty. “Shark Finning: SharkTs urned Prey.” Ocean Portal | poster, save as PDF and the bars will not be included. You can also delete fish, meaning their skeleton is made up of tough cartilage, not bone. This page. Smithsonian, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, 27 them by going to VIEW > MASTER. On the Mac adjust the Page-Setup to cartilage is strong, but when not supported by the natural buoyancy of Tourism effects: match the Page-Setup in PowerPoint before you create a PDF. 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Studies have shown that shark Save your template as a PowerPoint document. For printing, save as corner handles. For a professional-looking poster, do not distort your extreme pressure, and even possible rupturing. As well as being completely diving can have behavioral and ecological impacts on sharks. It is very PowerPoint or “Print-quality” PDF. • Rogers, Michael. “The Shameful History Of Shark Fin Soup.” Welcome images by enlarging them disproportionally. conscious during the entire fatal process, out of water, sharks are unable to important to assess the impacts of shark ecotourism has on their natural To SharkSider.com!, 27 Apr. 2016, www.sharksider.com/shameful- respire like they do in the ocean, which can cause suffocation and extreme behavior and to determine if it is detrimental to their health. history-shark-fin-soup/ Print your poster panic to the animal. 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Zoom in and look at your images at 100% magnification. If they look good eu.oceana.org/en/importance-sharks. they will print well. January 3, 2013, a worker collects The above and below images show the effects of shark finning in just a couple days, and how many sharks are impacted by it.

pieces of shark fins dried on the rooftop • Crawford, Stephanie. “The Pros and Cons of Ecotourism.” Shark

of a factory building in Hong Kong. Research & Conservation Program (SRC) | University of Miami, (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File) sharkresearch.rsmas.miami.edu/conservation/the-pros-and-cons-of-

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