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

There is no humane slaughter requirement for wild fish caught and killed at sea, nor, in most places, for farmed fish.

The industrial way we fish for seafood is harming the marine habitats that all ocean life depends upon. Indiscriminate commercial fishing practices that include miles of driftnets, long lines with thousands of lethal hooks and bottom trawls are ruining ocean ecosystems by killing non-seafood species, including sea turtles and marine mammals.

Some eco groups suggest that as many as 73 million sharks are killed globally every year. Hammerheads, blue sharks, mako sharks - they're disappearing, and they ain't coming back.

We have been far too aggressive about extracting ocean wildlife, not appreciating that there are limits and even points of no return.

Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

I'm not against extracting a modest amount of wildlife out of the ocean for human consumption, but I am really concerned about the large-scale industrial fishing that engages in destructive practices like trawling and longlining.

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

No good fish goes anywhere without a porpoise.