And yet, if you look at whale sharks, which is the other plankton eating large shark, its diversity is much greater.

This is probably the biggest threat to sharks worldwide it is the finning of sharks.

Well one obvious source is dead sharks, Dead sharks washed up.

In sharks, it protects their eyes while the shark strikes at its prey.

RP Silvertip sharks they're actually three species of sharks here.

And because I love sharks I'm somewhat obsessed with sharks I wanted to do another, more celebratory, story about sharks, as a way of talking about the need for shark conservation.

Man Bites Shark

And keep an eye out for sharks.

Preparation Genuine shark fin soup or stew is made with shark fins obtained from any of a variety of shark species.

Recognizing further the economic and cultural importance of sharks in many countries, the biological importance of sharks in the marine ecosystem, the vulnerability of some shark species to over exploitation and the need for measures to promote the long term sustainability of shark populations and fisheries,

It includes some of the most familiar species of sharks, such as the great white shark, as well as more unusual representatives, such as the goblin shark and the megamouth shark.

One is to try and work out the gender of the shark.

It became known as Simon's shark slime.

And being able to tell the gender of a shark has got very important for things like policing the trade in basking shark and other species through societies, because it is illegal to trade any sharks.

Look at that lovely, black shark slime.

Jim Toomey Learning from Sherman the shark

Swimming With Sharks in Mexico

And sharks used to come into the bay.

And of course, sharks, fish, are underwater most of the time.

He was saying to me, Over there you've got sharks.

He spent 11 days as part of the crew, catching and tagging seven great white sharks off the coast of Mexico.

On 13 March 2004, a specimen of the rare and unusual species of shark, megamouth shark, was washed ashore on Gapang beach.

A third of the size of the basking shark is their liver, and it's full of oil.

Go up in your boat and tag the shark.

So this is possibly going to be my legacy Simon's shark slime.

We also see sharks, much more regularly than I would have expected to.

Also, anecdotal evidence points to a worldwide drop in shark fin prices and a move away from shark fishing in parts of Africa.

In 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama signed the Shark Conservation Act, closing loopholes used to obtain shark fins.

Basking sharks are awesome creatures. They are just magnificent.

And sunfish is one of the words for basking sharks.

We're often all frightened of sharks thanks to Jaws.

We use a pole camera on the boat to actually film shark.

Now when we were out tagging our sharks, this is how we tagged them on the front of a RIB get in there fast occasionally the sharks do react.

By 1985, the annual take of angel shark on the central California coast had increased to more than 454 metric tons or an estimated 90,000 sharks.

But before I went out to photograph this component, I sort of wrestled with the notion of how do you make a picture of a dead shark that will resonate with readers You know, I think there's still a lot of people out there who think the only good shark is a dead shark.

Yahweh spoke to the fish, and it vomited out Jonah on the dry land.

And the LORD spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

The pygmy blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus brevicauda ) is a subspecies of the blue whale ( Balaenoptera musculus ) found in the Indian Ocean and the southern Pacific Ocean.

And as the shark came round, it would hit the net, the net would collapse on it.

In the past, Illinois has been a large importer of shark fins.

The black, you can't really see this, but these are Norwegian basking shark hunting vessels, and the black line in the crow's nest signifies this is a shark vessel rather than a whaling vessel.

I also wanted to focus on the shark fishing industry because, currently on planet Earth, we're killing over 100 million sharks every single year.

Then Jonah prayed to Yahweh, his God, out of the fish's belly.

Then Jonah prayed unto the LORD his God out of the fish's belly,

They used to use the flesh as well for fertilizer and also would fin the sharks.