Shark Conservation Quotes

We know shark's fin is a huge problem. In California now, you can't buy it or sell it.

Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain.

Sharks have swum the oceans for over 400 million years, but we're threatening this critically important species for the purpose of making soup - it's sad and wasteful.

Pigs eat more tuna than all the planet's sharks combined.

We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.

Think about it: You're trying to raise cash to save an endangered animal. You've got orphaned pandas getting 3 trillion YouTube hits, and you've got seals being clubbed over the head by roughnecks. The money flows in. But what about the poor shark?

There's still a lot of people out there who think the only good shark is a dead shark.

Most people don't know that humans kill 100 million sharks every year, mostly for a really expensive soup in Asia.

I swam with my first shark in the 1980s. I was 20 miles off the coast of Rhode Island, working with a group of marine scientists. Late in the day, a 5-foot long blue shark swam into our chum slick. For the next hour, I marveled at the animal's stunning indigo color and the elegant way she moved effortlessly through the sea.

I get a bit depressed if I walk into a restaurant and see shark-fin soup on the menu.

I still think there's a big part of the population that has a lot of misinformation about sharks. But I think it's beginning to change a little bit. As good information about sharks permeates popular culture, things may start to change.

Because the Asian market is so omnivorous, it affects all the shark populations up and down the Central and South American coast, and to a certain extent the East Coast of the United States as well.

Sharks freak me out.

I don't know a single surfer who would say, 'Gee, I wish there were no sharks in the ocean.'

I am terrified of sharks, so I don't surf!

Sharks are just evil bastards. I'm quite happy if all the sharks just went, because they eat fish and us. And we need the fish.

No, the shark in an updated JAWS could not be the villain; it would have to be written as the victim, for, worldwide, sharks are much more the oppressed than the oppressors.

I famously tasted shark fin soup many, many years ago before we understood exactly what was going on with the harvesting of sharks. I've consequently come out against it. I make personal choices in my life and stand behind them.

For decades I have tried to peel back the layers of mystery surrounding many marine creatures, though most have held tightly to their secrets. One animal that keeps me pondering is the shark. Spellbound by these enigmatic animals since I first encountered them in New England, I never tire of watching their special blend of power and grace.

Since writing JAWS, I've been lucky enough to do close to forty television shows about wildlife in the oceans, and yes, I have been attacked by sea creatures once in a while.

Out here in California, in the Pacific Ocean, the sharks have a bad attitude.

Twenty-five years ago nobody knew much about white sharks.

California is responsible for selling, trading and distributing large amounts of shark fins that come from all over the world.

A great white jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa. Half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me.

On Cape Cod, great white shark stocks have been growing, or at least becoming more concentrated, because of the multiplying numbers of seals around Monomoy Island. We are fortunate to have such abundance of these sharks in our own waters. Around the globe, we are killing in excess of 100 million sharks each year.