Twenty-one years after publication, Peter Benchley, the author of the best selling novel from which the script was derived said, “I couldn’t write Jaws today. The extensive new knowledge of sharks would make it impossible for me to create, in good conscience, a villain of the magnitude and malignity of the original.”
Read MoreUK Joins Canada and USA to Ban the Fin Trade
On June 29, 2023, The Shark Fins Act passed into law in the United Kingdom, protecting sharks in UK waters and a major step for conservation of sharks around the world. Following Canada and the USA, the Shark Fins Act will ban the import and export of detached shark fins, including all products containing shark fins such as canned shark fin soup. Shark Stewards applauds the example set by the United Kingdom ,and joins the StopFinning Eu coalition and calls on the EU to follow the lead to reduce impacts on Atlantic and global shark populations by facilitating the shark fin trade.
Read MoreACT NOW TO END THE LAST LETHAL NET FISHERY OFF CALIFORNIA
Set gillnets are the primary threat to juvenile great white sharks in their nursery grounds off California. White sharks play an important ecosystem role, and their population is still at low numbers and in recovery.
We can stop the needless slaughter of sharks, dolphins, sea turtles, and other marine wildlife by these nets off the coast of California. Urge the California Fish and Game Commission to declare the bycatch in the California Set Gillnet Fishery unacceptable.
Read MoreProfile Maria Korcmaros-Run for Sharks
The run for sharks fun run and walk supports our community and underserved youth ocean education. Learn more at Run4sharks.org and sign up to walk, run or volunteer at the 2023 run for sharks and ocean health fair.
Read MoreShark News- Shark Buddies, Shark Extinction
Surveying nearly 400 coral reefs around the world, a team of scientists documented that sharks are vanishing from waters where they were once common. This is a deeply disturbing sign that the ocean’s guardians are in even greater peril.
Read MoreNew Study Shows Sharks are at Greater Risk of Extinction Than Previously Believed
Recent work builds on previous studies that many shark species are in deep decline and their loss can have dire consequences on reefs and marine ecosystems.
Read MoreWorld Reef Day for One World Ocean
Saving Reefs World Ocean Day, Taking Action for the Ocean June 2, 2023 Newsletter Palmyra Atoll and the Palmyra Atoll Research Consortium Documenting Marine Life (Image Ian Shive Tandem Stills […]
Read MoreThe Bay Canary? More Leopard Shark Deaths in San Francisco Bay
In the last two months, numerous reports of dead or dying sharks in the Bay have followed a another die-off in Aquatic Park Berkeley this year. Sharks are being reported struggling in the shallows or washed up dead by concerned citizens from Redwood City, to Point Richmond, to San Francisco and outside the coast north of Bolinas in Marin County in April and May.
Read MoreShark Diving Tourism: Good or Bad?
Shark-diving tourism can be a controversial issue. Images of svelte, swimming females fending off assertive tiger sharks, armored divers hand -feeding bull sharks for tourists, and shots of white sharks slamming into cages: these scenes are not aways favorable for the average diver, or even the sharks.
Read MoreEndangered Species Day- Act for Pacific Sharks
National Endangered Species Day encourages learning about wildlife habitats and the actions necessary to protect them. The designation of a day to protect critically imperiled species from extinction is important to our ecosystems. As part of the Ocean Health Cooperative, a volunteer-based collective of nuclear engineers, marine biologists, ocean researchers, environmental lawyers, and citizens who work to protect our oceans, we are calling on Japan to desist from their plan to release radiation contaminated wastewater in the Pacific. We are joined by 10 Ocean artivists to make an international statement for the ocean, Pacific marine wildlife and ecosystems.
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