Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh. – Barbara Block
The bohar snapper – they have these huge canines. I got bit by one. One took a chunk out of my ear – they are much scarier than the sharks. – Brian Skerry
White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa. – Barbara Block
Most people don’t know that humans kill 100 million sharks every year, mostly for a really expensive soup in Asia. – Michael Muller
Without sharks, you take away the apex predator of the ocean, and you destroy the entire food chain. – Peter Benchley
I don’t use cages – I’ve been surrounded by 150 to 200 sharks, not once ever been close to being bitten. – Michael Muller
But as they say about sharks, it’s not the ones you see that you have to worry about, it’s the ones you don’t see. – David Blaine
I don’t like the idea of being eaten by a shark. I like to swim in the ocean, and I think much more about sharks than anyone should. I really resent the fact that my oceangoing experiences are ruined by ‘Jaws.’ – David Duchovny
When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer. – Francesca Annis
There’s a cardinal rule that you don’t talk about sharks. If you don’t see it, it’s not there. – Mark Warkentin
French fries kill more people than guns and sharks, yet nobody’s afraid of French fries. – Robert Kiyosaki
Ever since Mike Tyson was champ, twenty-something dudes have microwaved nachos, popped opened Natty Lights, watched sharks do unspeakable things on TV, and whispered a billion ‘Whoa, dudes.’ – Stephen Rodrick
By the end of the 20th century, up to 90 percent of the sharks, tuna, swordfish, marlins, groupers, turtles, whales, and many other large creatures that prospered in the Gulf for millions of years had been depleted by overfishing. – Sylvia Earle
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. – Stephen Rodrick
Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species. – Sylvia Earle
I’m obsessed with great white sharks. And I want to dive into the coral of the Great Barrier Reef. – Sara Sampaio
Sharks are really serious animals. They’ve been around longer than dinosaurs. They’re basically prehistoric killing machines, and that’s terrifying and fascinating, at the same time. – Sara Paxton