Fishing Pressure Pushing Sharks Toward Extinction


	Fishing Pressure Pushing Sharks Toward Extinction

tabsey

2-20-2008 5:13 AM

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nature, dying out

tabsey says:

We are changing this planet too much. Maybe we have changed it forever.

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