Word: sharked
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...next morning McClintock and a fellow Shark, 2.08-meter Kevin Byrne out of the University of Idaho, are watching tape of that night's opponent, the Guangdong Southern Tigers. The two players are in Room 301 of a dormitory at the Hui Feng Training Center of the Shanghai Technical Sports Institute, where all the Sharks save three?the two pampered imports and one Chinese player with U.S. college and pro experience?are made to dwell, dine and train...
...easy to like hammerhead sharks. Ugly to the point of freakishness, stupid beyond mere brutishness, the species is one of nature's least agreeable creations. Nonetheless it was bad news last week when the journal Science published a paper revealing that the unloved hammerhead, as well as many other species of shark, is vanishing faster than we imagined. If the beleaguered predators--consumed as delicacies, hunted as trophies and inadvertently caught by fishing fleets seeking other game--should ever disappear entirely, the world's oceans could be in serious trouble...
...boat has room in its hold, the sharks may be kept with the rest of the catch and sold for their meat. If not, their fins, prized on the market for shark-fin soup, may be cut off and the rest of the animal--alive and bleeding--tossed back. In 2000, former President Bill Clinton signed an order banning shark finning, but that covers only U.S. fleets, and whether all of them comply is hard to know...
Using the number of sharks caught on longlines as an index of the number surviving in the wild, the Dalhousie team came up with some alarming figures. From 1986 to 2000, nearly all shark species may have declined at least 50%, with the populations of some approaching collapse. Tiger-shark populations are down 65%, the legendary white shark has fallen 79%, and the hammerhead is in the worst shape of all, down a staggering...
Unless you're a shark gourmand, the disappearance of such lethal beasts might not seem like a bad thing. For marine life, however, it could be a disaster. Despite their ferocity, sharks ensure a kind of order in the oceans. Sitting at the top of the food chain, they keep other large predators in check, regulating who gets to eat whom and who gets to survive and thrive. Want to preview an ocean after the sharks have gone? Picture Yugoslavia after the Soviets: a bloodbath. "We know from studying lakes that top predators have disproportionate effects on their ecosystems," says...