PEW FOR SHARKS - Please sign by Aug 31st 2012
Every year, up to 73 million sharks are killed for their fins, valued mostly for the Asian delicacy shark fin soup.
Sharks have roamed our oceans since before the time of dinosaurs, but their long reign at the top of the ocean food chain may be ending. The onset of industrial fishing over the past 60 years has drastically depleted their populations. Of the shark and ray species assessed by scientists for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 30 percent are threatened or near-threatened with extinction.
