VISION
Our oceans are in deep trouble. Many marine species have declined by as much as 90 percent. Commercial trawlers using large nets, long-line fishing vessels that deploy thousands of hooks, and high-tech fishing devices to trick large schools of fish toward nets, are all literally gutting our seas. It is estimated that around 80 million tonnes of marine-life are vacuumed from the ocean a year, and 20 million tonnes thrown back, as unwanted waste.
However, fisherman, both regulated and unregulated, are not the only culprits in the ocean's destruction. We are responsible for tonnes of plastic that finds its way into our seas, contaminating and strangling marine-life in its folds. Noise pollution from boats and naval sonar, and ignorance in placing nets for beach safety, that kill thousands of harmless sharks, dugongs, whales, turtles, rays and dolphins each season, all contribute to the demise of the ocean.
At the top of the sea's food chain lies the shark, at the bottom, the sea cucumber. What is happening to these two creatures, and all in between, can be described as tragic. Sharks Lair aims to encourage, educate, inspire and make aware its readers about all that is happening out in the deep blue. Whoever reads our articles will find scientific updates, local stories about our marine life and profiles on people working for the marine environment. Without the shark, we have no ocean ecosystem. Without knowledge of what is going on underneath, we are powerless to call for changes from above.
One Ocean
Respect it
Protect it
Harriet Jones
