SHARKY'S
KIDS PAGE

Hi Kids

My name is Sharky, and this page is especially for you.
Cool hah.... yes on this page you will find stuff just for you. I want to have a lot of friends, and you can help me out.

How?

Well... if you have anything cool that you want to send me, like a sharky drawing, short poem, your own sharky experience, or anything else that deals with Sharks,
just e-mail it to me. If I like it, I will put it in this page!!

It's that easy.

When you write to me, make sure that you put in your
full Name, Age, City / State and Country.

OK. That's it..... I will be here waiting for you.

Your Finny Friend

SHARKY

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Hey Kids. I am here today to tell you a little about my cousins and my family. Do you know that I have over 450 relatives? … Yes that is the number of different Sharks in the world. All of us Sharks have been living in the sea for millions of years, even before the Dinosaurs.

Unfortunately, all Sharks have got the image of being bad, because a few of us were involved in incidents with people, but it is not true that we are all killers. A lot of the 450 different kinds of Sharks are totally harmless, including the largest Shark in the World, The Whale Shark. Most of us do not even grow more than 2 meters.

We have a very important part in the keeping the balance of nature. Do you know that it is our duty to keep the seas clean from sick fish and over population of other creatures? So you see if all sharks had to be killed, there will be a disaster in the seas around the world. Sick fish will spread more disease and other creatures will over populate areas and the balance of nature will be destroyed. So it is important that people learn to respect and protect sharks, and understand us for what we truly are.

It is sad that over 200 million sharks are being killed every year just for soup. Let me tell you that it is not nice to be caught in a net and have your fins and tail cut off and than be thrown back into the sea, alive but with a mutilated body, to sink to the bottom and die a slow painful death. Many of my relatives in other countries are dying this way every day, and our numbers are decreasing very fast.

Consider also the fact that most of us take long to reach maturity, and although some of us have many babies, only a few survive to become adults.

Also, when a shark accidentally hurts a human, it is mostly a case of mistaking the Human for our normal food source. Believe me, Homo Sapiens are not on our menu. Yes I know it is sad when these incidents happen, but than again it is not right for humans to go out and kill hundreds of sharks for revenge. Why blame all of us for mistakes done by a few.

I know for a fact that there are people who come diving in places were we are. Some of them come into our world to feed us and others to take pictures of us. There are some others that also just come to look at us. None of these people are ever HURT.

I wish that Humans could understand us better and learn more about us, that way, the world would be a much better place to live in for both Humans and Sharks.

Your Finny Friend

SHARKY

Shark's World

I will try to change this way
Sharks are mistreated every day
Some people laugh some people cry
I will try and try until I die.

- Lily
Age: 10
Date: 6-14-02

- Danielle Bechtloff (Sharkgirl) CA
Age:
Date:18-10-03

The Sharks Wish

Predator of the Ocean,
Hunter of the Sea,
To not be Feared would be my Wish,
After all I'm just a Fish.

- Lloyd
Age: 13
Date: 11-26-02

There are big sharks.
There are fat sharks.
There are blue sharks.
There are Tiger sharks.
There are even Great white sharks.
But most of all I love them all.

- Danielle C.
Age:11
Date:12-3-02