Every Jaws fan knows that the shark gets away in the end. What they don't know is that too many sharks have taken it; and this has caused a rapid decline in the shark population over the last thirty years. Since the 1970s, sharks in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico have declined by 85%. Sharks are vital animals to our world's ecosystem, and if the decline is not controlled; we may find ourselves facing devastating problems in the years to come. The information was obtained from two books: The Shark Almanac by Thomas B. Allen and Sharks, An Introduction for the Amateur Naturalist by Sanford A. Moss. The sources also include a number of online references, including BBC News, ENS News, The New York Times, and two online scientific journals: Congruent Trends in Long-term Zooplankton Decline in the North-east Atlantic and Basking Shark (Cetorhinus maximus) Fishery Catches off the West of Ireland and Shitfting baselines and the decline of pelagic sharks in the Gulf of Mexico. The sources conclude with two short articles: one written for USA Today by Traci Watson, and the second written for Newsweek by Lucy Howard and Paul O'Donnell. Information from these sources includes topics such as the history of shark fishing and what their body parts are used for, the decline of the shark population and why it is so harmful, and what measures need to be taken to control the shark population. . The articles also illustrate how the decline of sharks has been presented to the general public and how they are responding. For centuries, humans have hunted sharks for sport, food, medicine, and leather with little regard for the health of the shark population (Allen, 1999). ). Sharks are considered one of the most difficult fish to catch and their... half of paper...... corresponds to scientific reality, most of the articles you find on the subject express the opinion of the writer on the topic and related scientific facts, true facts and statistics found primarily in scientific books and journals. Sharks have existed for over 400 million years. They survived dinosaurs and other land species. Today they live more or less as they did then, with few evolutionary changes. There are 375 different species of sharks, but the problem with managing shark populations will continue if changes are not made. If not everyone can agree on how to stop the rapid decline, there would be serious consequences for our environment, particularly our ocean plankton. We have seen that our need to crave luxurious items and delicate meals has caused such a huge problem in the ecosystems of our oceans that we cannot say what it has done...