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Shark Fin Soup

Image courtesy of National Geographic For those of you who didn't know, its Shark Week, the annual event where the Discovery Channel airs all programs related to these top predators. You have until Sunday night to get your shark fix in! Shark Week also brings up another topic: the near extinction of these magnificent creatures. As predators at or near the top of marine food webs, sharks have helped maintain the balance of marine life in our oceans for the past 400 million years. Research shows that the massive depletion of sharks has cascading effects throughout our oceans. Fins from...

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