Ellen’s Reviews > Emperors of the Deep: The Mysterious and Misunderstood World of the Shark > Status Update

The depictions of overfishing and its devastating effect on shark populations, let alone the shark finning and torture it entails for the animals in tandem with fishing, is utterly harrowing. Everybody not sustainably fishing for themselves/locally needs to dramatically cut their consumption; this is beyond alarming.

“It was a young shark, [...] too young to ever have bred. Because the minimum weight requirement for the tournament was 175 pounds, the shark was disqualified. It died for nothing.” I HATE men – this entire segment is so disturbing and saddening to read, trophy hunting at sea needs to be persecuted. How can you value a species’ life as cheaply/not at all as these men do the sharks’? ABOMINABLE “hobby”.

“Nicknamed the White Shark Café, this area, which is approximately the size of the state of Colorado, hosts what some people have started to refer to as Burning Man for sharks.” This book is an utterly glorious read!

“Kill the sharks, and humankind cripples the seas. The sudden vulnerability of sharks – a species that has survived five extinction-level events, including the one that killed the dinosaurs – calls for a complete re-interpretation of our relationship with them.”