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recounts is the experience of marine ecologist Dr. James Bruno
from the University of North Carolina’s “research station in
the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador”. He was required to assist
the police with identifying some 350 sharks on a boat where
some of the fins were already removed. Bruno explains the
severity of that situation stating, “This was in the Galapagos,
a national marine reserve and national heritage site”
(Rosenthal, 2012, para. 15). This just goes to show how little
many of the fisheries really care for the laws or the sharks
they hunt; in the end, their only concern is the amount of
money they can make. Unfortunately, laws that merely slow
the rate of which sharks are fished only sidestep the problem,
and because these fishing companies are making so much
money, they are able to send more boats out to increase the
amount of sharks they can catch.
There are other difficulties that can be seen in the
ineffectiveness of laws that protect certain waters. Some
sharks migrate from one area to another, and there is no way
that we can keep sharks in a protected area. Generally
speaking it seems that it is incredibly easier to protect land
animals than marine life. People have more control over the
land on which they live than they do over the ocean. Here in