Our Mission
Restoring Ocean Health by Saving Sharks
100,000,000 sharks and rays are killed for their fins each year. 90% of several species are completely gone. Today 25% of all sharks and rays are threatened or near threatened with extinction. Nearly half are missing the scientific data to manage and protect them.
In ten years many sharks will be extinct
Shark Stewards is an international non-profit dedicated to saving sharks and ocean habitat. We work to ensure sharks and marine ecosystems will survive for the benefit of ocean health and remain to inspire and fascinate future generations.
We can save sharks now!
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Shark Stewards saves sharks by supporting regulation to reduce the shark fin trade and overfishing. We support and create marine protected areas for sharks and the habitat they live in. Learn more and take action here.
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Volunteer
Do you love sharks and want to help save them? Shark Stewards has a place for you! Join us at one of our events or help save sharks through outreach, education and action wherever you live. Opportunities for adults and kids!
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Donate
This is a critical moment to save sharks from extinction and protect the ocean they live in. We have established important legislation, and engaged communities and 1000s of youth. Help us save them with your donation.
Donate“Shark Stewards is at the forefront of shark protection. Please, support their work“
—Dr. Sylvia A. Earle,
National Geographic Explorer, Founder Mission Blue
Support sharks and their reef habitat directly by creating marine protected areas and implementing no shark fishing policies in SE Asia. Your $100 donation goes to data collection, monitoring and increased protection for mobula rays and sharks and the coral reef they inhabit.
Your adoption includes a signed certificate with a high quality image of a reef shark suitable for framing, with a name you provide.
Adopt a Shark
End the Fin and Keep Sharks Swimming
Shark finning is the abhorrent and wasteful practice of cutting off a shark’s fins and discarding the body back into the ocean to drown or bleed to death. Sharks are also being overfished globally, largely driven by the demand for shark fin to make shark fin soup. The shark fin trade in the U.S. contributes to plummeting shark populations across the world. Ending consumption and trade will save millions of sharks.
Act now to save sharks
Support the Chumash National Marine Sanctuary
Show your support for the next National Marine Sanctuary The nomination of the Chumash National Marine Sanctuary off the central California coast has reached it’s five-year review and must be re-evaluated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to remain in the inventory for consideration.Your voice is needed to support this coastal area…
Stop Plastic Pollution
We, the undersigned condemn single use plastic pollution and urge these major plastic pollution companies to reduce single use plastic packaging, improve labeling, provide increased and verifiable flow from the consumer to recycling.
Ban Longline Fishing
For decades, California fishers have targeted swordfish, mako, and thresher sharks as market catch using drift gill nets, or drift nets. To a lesser degree, white sea bass have been used targeting inshore driftnets. These nets have captured tons of swordfish and sharks, also killing thousands of other animals like seabirds, marine mammals and…
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Cloth Shark Mask$20.00 -
Adopt a Shark$100.00 -
Men’s Shark T$27.00 -
1 Less Hook Jewelry$25.00