Reef Stories
Sharks & Rays
Being driven to extinction
Sharks & Rays
Fish Index
Fish
Sharks & Rays
Anenome Fish
Anthias
Angelfish
Batfish
Barracuda & Travallies
Box-, File-& Pufferfiish
Blennies
Butterflyfish
Cardinalfish
Dartfish
Dragonets
Dottybacks
Eels
Flatfish
Frogfish
Gobies
Ghost Pipefish
Hawkfish
Jawfish
Sand-Divers
Scorpionfish
Seahorses
Snappers
Surgeonfish
Sweetlips
Triggerfish
Wrasse
Sharks have lived in our oceans for 420 million years and rays for c. 200 million years. Populations of many species have decreased by as much as 90% in the last 50 years and are in desperate need of conservation.
Sharks
The sites of the aid organisations describe the plight of sharks in detail. Check them out for up to date information.
Sharks are essential to the health of reefs, ensuring that only the healthiest fish survive. Massive overfishing has decimating populations and must be stopped.
Check out the aid organisations and if you are in the European Union, vote now in the Stop Finning campaign to try and motivate the EU to ban shark finning.
Rays
Rays are as much threatened as sharks. The global extinction risk now cites c.75% as threatened with extinction. Most of these were very common only a few years ago.
As with sharks, their long life-spans, the many years before they can breed and the very low number of offspring have contributed to their catastrophic decline in numbers.
Help Save Reefs!
The organisations that work to protect sharks and rays need as much support as they can get. Extinction is forever! Check out:
If you are a diver, and especially if you are an underwater photographer, donate. If you do nothing, there will be nothing to dive on and nothing to photograph.
These are suggestions, but not endorsements of the suggested organisations. It is your responsibility to review and check the charities you wish to donate to.
Sharks
Sharks
The sites of the aid organisations describe the plight of sharks in detail. Check them out for up to date information.
Sharks are essential to the health of reefs, ensuring that only the healthiest fish survive. Massive overfishing has decimating populations and must be stopped.
Check out the aid organisations and if you are in the European Union, vote now in the Stop Finning campaign to try and motivate the EU to ban shark finning.
Rays
Rays
Rays are as much threatened as sharks. The global extinction risk now cites c.75% as threatened with extinction. Most of these were very common only a few years ago.
As with sharks, their long life-spans, the many years before they can breed and the very low number of offspring have contributed to their catastrophic decline in numbers.
