Sharks are important for maintaining healthy oceans and marine ecosystems. They play an important role in the food chain but many shark populations are declining due to overfishing and finning. To help conserve sharks, people should support laws protecting endangered shark species in India, practice sustainable fishing, and reduce bycatch fishing. Global conservation efforts are also needed to protect declining shark populations and keep oceans healthy.

1. SHARKS ARE IMPORTANT
TO

2. Why are sharks important?
Healthy Shark
populations
Healthy Oceans
Healthy Marine
Ecosystems

3. What role do sharks have?

4. Why should we in India
care?

5. Where are all the sharks
going?

6. What is affecting sharks?
Late maturitySlow growing
young
Export
consumption
Overfishing
Give birth to few
Local
consumption
Finning

8. Shark finning – the reality
Crue
l
Dangerously efficient
Ecologically destructive

9. What can you do to conserve
sharks?

10. Step 1: Know the Sharks that are
protected by law
Knifetooth sawfish
Whale Shark
Ganges Stingray
Pondicherry Shark
Ganges Shark

11. Green Sawfish
Largetooth Sawfish
Giant Guitarfish
Speartooth Shark
Porcupine Ray

12. Step 2: Help safeguard
populations
Follow and help enforce
‘Fins Attached Policy’
Practice and promote
sustainable fishing
Reduce indiscriminate
by-catch fishing

13. Step 3: Care about sharks
globally

14. The ocean needs sharks
More than we need soup!
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15. Than
k
you!
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