Sharkwaters

My opinion of the awesome documentary Sharkwaters which is about the problem about overfishing shark fins is very sad. Sharks are very peaceful animals but movies as Jaws make the look as if they are monsters and that is why people are scared of them. This movie made me see that sharks are not the enemy and I learned that they help us survive. My opinion of the people that kill sharks for their fins is that they are very greedy and they don´t see the things they are doing to the ecosystem. I liked the thinking of the Chinese bride that had been documented because she said that shark fin soup really is not that needed and that what they are doing to the sharks is as if they grabbed her, took off her ear, and left her for her to bleed to death.

                One thing I learned about sharks is that they are needed in the ecosystem. Sharks eat lots of the fish they eat feed in plankton. Plankton at the sea produces most of the air we breathe. If the sharks’ don´t eat that fish they will reproduce and there population will be so big that they will eat more plankton and we will lose air. The more sharks we have in the ocean probably the more air from the plankton we will have.

                Another thing Sharkwaters teaches me happened when they were talking to the guy that was the manager of a shark fin industry and what the main character said. Sharks are said to be monsters and movies as Jaws make sharks look as monsters when they are the ones that help us survive. I liked how in the documentary says that the human has a need to have a monster in its environment. I learned that sometimes us believe in something that is not true and finish us being the monster. If we kill all the sharks in the world what will be our next “monster”. A cat? What will happen when we wipeout every animal? Will we be the next? All of this is what I learned.

                I think- no am sure that we need to help to stop overfishing sharks. What I will do to stop the killing of sharks is that I will never drink shark fin soup. If we don´t drink shark the ones that kill sharks will not make more money and will stop fishing shark fins. To do this it will take the help of everyone. I know that together we can stop the overfishing of shark fins. Together we will stop this problem.