Every year millions of sharks die due to habit destruction, commercial fishing, pollution, a variety of uses for parts of the sharks, and killings as a result of worldwide fear of sharks. The Great White, a species of sharks, get killed because they are universally feared. People thoughtlessly kill sharks because their lives appear in danger and they don't take the time to consider that killing sharks affects the ecosystem. Lemon sharks, now rapidly disappearing, see their nursery grounds, the mangrove swamplands in Florida, becoming neighborhoods for Florida's growing population. Commercial fishing, the biggest offender, effects all sharks especially the Blue Shark. Every year the Taiwanese and Korean squid drift netters kill over two million Blue Sharks worldwide (Woog 36).
             Too many sharks get pointlessly slaughtered every year. This trend needs reversing before the decline of the shark population cannot recover. The extinction of sharks most likely causes an extensive reaction in the oceans ecosystem. Unfortunately, solutions to the sharks' problems become increasingly difficult to deal with because of all the variables involved.
             The area where most shark killings occur, like international waters and the territorial waters of countries like Taiwan, Korea, and Japan, need more regulations and stronger agreements between countries. Old factories that dump large amounts of pollution into the oceans must be shut down. Sometimes this means people lose their jobs because of strict regulation enforcement. Shark habitats need protection so they can't be taken over by new development. These lands need recognition as wildlife preserves. This way development won't happen there in the first place. To reduce the drastic decline in sharks' population the united Nations must put together an international organization to set up and enforce laws to protect sharks from commercial fishing, pollutio...