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

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

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.

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

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,

I wanted to do another, more celebratory, story about sharks, as a way of talking about the need for shark conservation.

Meanwhile, the other characters are talking about shark fin soup.

And sharks and fish are underwater most of the time, so this tag actually works out the locations of shark, depending on the timing and the setting of the sun, plus water temperature and depth.

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.

All it was doing was breaking my arrows because the shark skin is just so strong.

All it was doing was breaking my arrows, because the shark's skin is just so strong.

It's not what you typically might think of as a shark picture.

What I want the dope on is, if there happened to be card sharks on this tub...

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.

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.

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

They have a shark like body, average in length, weigh , and can live in excess of thirty years.

Coconuts! You can get killed by a coconut more likely than killed by a shark.

The black line in the crow's nest signifies this is a shark vessel, rather than a whaling vessel.

And with this photograph of a beautiful 15 feet, probably 14 feet, I guess, female tiger shark,

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.

As of 2006, there have only been 36 findings of megamouth sharks in the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic oceans.

Calgary, Alberta, joined other Canadian cities in banning shark fin soup on 16 July 2012 .

I do three or four strips after that where we explore the finning issue and the shark fin soup issue.

Reaffirming its support for the initiative of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and relevant regional and subregional fisheries management organizations and arrangements on the conservation and management of sharks, while noting with concern that only a small number of countries have implemented the International Plan of Action for the Conservation and Management of Sharks,

So this tag actually works out the locations of shark depending on the timing and the setting of the sun, plus water temperature and depth.

I also searched on this story for the elusive great hammerhead, an animal that really hadn't been photographed much until maybe about seven or 10 years ago.

Tuna fish!

Fish again. Not fish again.

later editions continued as follows When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lark, And will talk in contemptuous tones of the Shark,

I also searched on this story for the elusive great hammerhead, an animal that really hadn't been photographed much until maybe about seven or 10 years ago.

The shark.

A rare megamouth shark species was found on shore and the island is the only habitat for the threatened toad, Bufo valhallae (genus Bufo ).

Fishermen? No.

Fresh fish! Fresh fish!

Lovely fish

Big ones?

Fish, Fix?

Haddock?

We're having haddock.

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.

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