With Knowing Comes Caring.

Nothing Has Prepared Sharks, Squid, Krill And Other Sea Creatures For Industrial-scale Extraction That Destroys Entire Ecosystems While Targeting A Few Species.

The Ocean Governs The Climate And The Weather, It Is Taking Care Of The Temperature And It Is Shaping The Chemistry Of Our Planet.

This Is A Living Planet. Look Around. Mars, Venus, Jupiter. Look Beyond Our Solar System. Where Else Is There A Place That Works, That Is Just Right For The Likes Of Us? It Has Not Happened Just Instantly. It Is Vulnerable To Our Actions. But It's The Result Of Four And A Half Billion Years Of Evolution, Of Change Over Time. And It Changes Every Day, All The Time. It Would Be In Our Interest To Try To Maintain A Certain Level Of Stability That Has Enabled Us To Prosper, To Not Wreck The Very Systems That Give Us Life.

Globally Sharks Have Been Killed For Their Fins, For Their Cartilage, For Their Livers, For Their Meat. But Mostly What Has Driven Some Species Of Sharks To Near Extinction - Including The Hammerhead Shark - Is The New Luxury Taste For Shark Fin Soup.

As A Child, I Was Aware Of The Widely-held Attitude That The Ocean Is So Big, So Resilient That We Could Use The Sea As The Ultimate Place To Dispose Of Anything We Did Not Want, From Garbage And Nuclear Wastes To Sludge From Sewage To Entire Ships That Had Reached The End Of Their Useful Life.