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    Sharks and Australian Fisheries The Fishing industry is the 5th largest food producing industry in Australia. Annually it puts $2.2 billion dollars into our economy each year (afma.gov‚ 2013). Australians consume approximately 16kg of fish and seafood per person per year. This amounts to a lot of fish needed to sustain such a demanding population. Therefore the most important issue for fisheries in Australia is to ensure the ecological sustainability of fish stocks in the long term so that ecosystems

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    Sharks play a big role in balancing out marine life. They eat very efficiently they eat old‚ young‚ sick and slow fish. They set the marine life to the right size to fit the ecosystem. Scientist consider sharks as the “keystone” species. If the sharks aren’t there then the ecosystem would collapse. The ecosystem depends on them‚ without sharks the population would be over crowded. If the oceans were of crowded then there would be no room for any sea animal and everything would just collapse. We need

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    Sharks by : Maritza Martinez Most people are afraid of sharks and don’t want anything to do with them but there are people that actually know things about sharks and don’t fear them. Sharks much like people come in all different shapes and sizes and can and do live mainly everywhere. What people don’t know is that sharks are much like people they take care of their young by protecting them‚ feeding them‚ teaching them to hunt. They are thought of as

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    Shark Cull Oral

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    Does any of you in the class know the themed music for jaws? of course you do‚ we all do. Because sharks are really scary arn’t they? Sadly Films such as this as well as the media have built up this huge reputation of sharks being threatening‚ alarming & Dangerous monsters of the sea. It’s a tragedy! Today I will be arguing for the rights of these misrepresented sharks and how this new "catch and kill policy" is completely wrong. Firstly I’d like to inform you on what the catch and kill policy actually

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    Why Are Sharks Important

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    Why sharks are important…. Sharks play a very important role in the ecosystem. Sharks being at the top of the food chain‚ dealing with marine life‚ keep the ecosystem on track. Some of those reasons are that they keep the food webs in balance‚ Tourism‚ and without them there would be a lost in food source for humans. To begin with sharks are essential to the different ways of living because they keep the food web in balance. Sharks will eat old or sick in a population which keeps that population

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    Norman Mailer Analysis

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    Norman Mailer‚ in his essay "The Death of Bennay Paret"‚ recounts the tragic boxing match between Benny Paret and Emil Griffith in 1963. With precise details and animal imagery‚ Mailer establishes his disapproval of the uncontrollable violence in the sport of boxing. When retelling his eye witness experience‚ Mailer states that "Griffith was in like a cat ready to rip the life out of a huge boxed rat". This simile illustrates the horror that commonly occurs in the boxing ring and that such animalistic

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    Shark Cage Diving

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    welcome to our speech on the dangers of Shark Cage Diving. This is our second time public speaking‚ so bare with us. My name is Emily and I find that this is an extremely interesting subject. I find this an interest subject since many people tend to underestimate the experience‚ people will see it as though‚ humans are the only ones getting hurt‚ but really‚ sharks are injured and killed due to this sport. The amounts of sharks which die has risen since Shark Cage Diving was introduced. Yes‚ this would

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    Shark and Rat Lab

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    mammalian and the shark heart. Learn all the major structures of the body systems of the shark and functions of certain structures as well as for the rat. Understand the terms of retroperitoneal‚ ovoviviparous‚ oviparous‚ and viviparous. Know which vessels and heart parts contain what “kind” of blood (oxygenated or deoxygenated)‚ and perform a good dissection. II. Materials and Methods Materials Gloves Specimen Tray Scapel Pins A Photographic Atlas Scissors Shark Rat Ashoka (For

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    Shark and Spiny Dogfish

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    3. A. Are sharks members of the group Chordata? B. Why? 4. Describe the distinguishing characteristics of Chondrichthyes. a. Skeleton: b. Scales: c. Ear: d. Organ used for fertilization: e. Fertilization type: f. Organ used for buoyancy: 5. What animals belong to the group Chondrichthyes? 6. What does gnathostome mean? Sharks 7. A. What does it mean to say that sharks have fusiform

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    Norman Mcaaig Essay

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    Norman McCaig writes the poem‚ summer farm in a metaphysical style. His poem talks about the more complicated questions of existence and life itself‚ that can not be explained by the physical realm of things. His poem begins describing the farm that surrounds him‚ and then changes subject as his mind wanders seeking to answer metaphysical questions that are lingering in his head. The first verse of the poem is a general description of the farm. However his thoughts seem to be in a pattern‚ picking

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