Overfishing Affects Greenland Sharks in Shark by Dr Miranda Macquitty

Summary: Overfishing by nets, for target fish, of bycatch affects Greenland sharks in Shark, as DK Publishing Eyewitness Guide 2008, by Dr. Miranda Macquitty.

"God talks to human beings through many vectors: through each other, through organized religion, through the great books of those religions, through wise people, through art and music and literature and poetry, but nowhere with such detail and grace and color and joy as through creation. When we destroy a species, when we destroy a special place, we're diminishing our capacity to sense the divine, understand who God is and what our own potential is." Robert Francis Kennedy Jr., April 19, 2023, Boston Park Plaza Hotel, Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts.

“And there’s many people out there who want us to move to the next planet already and I’m like, hang on, let’s not give up on this planet yet," William, Prince of Wales, July 31, 2023, Sorted Food food truck, London, England, United Kingdom.

Rohan Chakravarty, an Indian artist, cartoonist, illustrator and naturalist from Nagpur, northeastern Maharashtra state, western peninsular India, debuted his Green Humour comics on the international comics platform Gocomics in December 2013; a "memorable encounter with a beautiful tigress bathing in a Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary waterhole" inspired him to make a career change from dentist to conservation and wildlife artist, according to the "About" page (https://www.greenhumour.com/p/about.html) on his Green Humour website; on the final day, Friday, Sep. 23, 2022, of the 44th annual meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO), held Monday, Sep. 19, through Friday, Sep. 23, 2022, in Porto, Portugal, "new, historic protections" were granted to Greenland sharks, according to a press release issued Friday, Sep. 23, 2022 by the Shark League for the Atlantic and Mediterranean (https://sharkleague.org/2022/09/23/greenland-shark-granted-historic-international-protection/); "Greenland Shark Fishing Ban" by Green Humour creator Rohan Chakravarty appeared in his Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, post for his Green Humour Facebook site and also for his Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, column in the Sci-Tech > Environment section of the Hindu (https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/green-humour-rohan-chakravarty/article66052389.ece): Green Humour, via Facebook Oct. 29, 2022

Overfishing by nets, for target fish, of bycatch affects Greenland sharks of the glacial-watered Arctic Ocean and the temperate-watered North Atlantic in Shark, DK Publishing Eyewitness Guide 2008, by Dr. Miranda Macquitty.

The juvenile book for ages 8 through 12, grades 3 through 7 broaches overfishing by fishing nets and by long lines for bycatch and target fish. Overfishing shark species comes from modern and traditional considerations of shark species as considerable sources of such body parts as fins, flesh, jaws, livers and skins. The below-detail bibliography describes Greenland sharks as delivering boiled, dried meat from their flesh; cutters from their teeth; oils from their livers; scrapers from their skin.

The Macquitty book equates Greenland sharks with the culinary expressions of Icelanders, whose national dish, hákarl (from Old Norse hár karl, "dogfish/shark man"), entails Greenland-shark meat.

Online sources and such other sources as in the below-furnished bibliography feature Greenland-shark flesh as fomenting, from not fermenting fresh flesh, intoxicated, paralyzed, even perishing dogs.

Greenland-shark flesh guards ammonia-like scents even as its Icelandic dish goes through below-ground burying under gravel, sand and stones to get out trimethylamine N-oxide and urea. It houses the chemical compound trimethylamine N-oxide, chemical formulaed (CH 3)3NO, and the organic compound urea, chemical-formulaed CO(NH2)2, as antifreeze against Arctic-Ocean cold, deep-down home-range depths. The Icelandic iteration for edible Greenland-shark flesh impels 6- to 12-week (1.5- to 3-month) in-ground fermenting afore 16- to 20-week (4- to 5-month) open-air shed drying.

The bibliography below judges Greenland sharks edible-fleshed Iceland-style fermented, dried, Greenland-style boiled, dried even as Miranda Macquitty in Shark judges overfishing jeopardizing Greenland-shark populations and products.

The bibliography kept below knows of overfishing Greenland sharks kindled by Greenland-shark 8- to 24-foot (2.4384- to 7.3152-meter) lengths knocking fishing, sealing, shipping, whaling underwater equipment.

The below-lodged bibliography and the Macquitty book list a parasitic copepod (Greek κώπη, "handle"; ποδός, "foot/leg") latching onto the corneal layer leading to Greenland-shark near-, total-blindness. The below-maintained bibliography mentions Ommatokoita elongata (Greek ὄμμᾰ κοίτα, "eye look/peek"; Latin ēlongāta, "aloof/departed/elongated/prolonged/protracted/removed/stretched/withdrawn") even as Macquitty-book imaging manifests the anchor-armed, egg-sacked, orange-red, 11.25-inch (31-millimeter) parasite. Greenland sharks navigate cold, dark depths even as they niche such other senses as electromagnetic-field, smell, sound, vibration sensitivities that need vision for noticing fishing nets.

Overfishing occupies Miranda Macquitty in Shark even as Greenland sharks, as bycatch and nontarget nuisance fish with vision copepod-obstructed (Macquitty:27), occasion overboarding dead, dying, injured.

Greenland sharks, as target fish for practical product-providing, produce scaly-rough skin and oblique-cusped lower-, pointed upper-teeth respectively for wooden-knife handle sheaths and cutting edges (Macquitty:46).

Inuit (Inuktitut ᐃᓄᐃᑦ, "the people") Greenlanders traditionally queue seals, walruses, whales into cooked or roasted chunks even as east-Greenland Inuit quarter Greenland sharks into boiled chunks. The below-realized bibliography recognizes Greenland shark-retrieving Europeans, Greenlanders, Icelanders even as the first-rallied two return oceanward those rejected as non-target or relieved of product-renderable body parts. The Macquitty book sees 150-year life-expectant whale sharks among our Earth's longest-lived creatures even as the below-supplied bibliography signals Greenland sharks as surviving 400, 400-plus years.

Miranda Macquitty, in her 2008-published Shark, treats overfishing as traumatizing ecological balance generally, slow-reproducting sharks particularly, even as Greenland sharks transform into first-time parents as 150-year-olds!

Graphic of "Types of Sharks Lifespans" in "How Long Do Sharks Live? Unreaveling the Mystery" by wildlife and marine science writer Kaylee Keech, posted Aug. 7, 2023, on Outforia website (https://outforia.com/how-long-do-sharks-live/); Greenland shark (third row, center) attains "Average Lifespan: 250-500 Years," and Whale Shark (below Greenland shark; fourth row, center) tallies "Average Lifespan: 70-100 Years": Big Blue by Roland St. John, via Facebook March 21, 2023

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

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Rohan Chakravarty, an Indian artist, cartoonist, illustrator and naturalist from Nagpur, northeastern Maharashtra state, western peninsular India, debuted his Green Humour comics on the international comics platform Gocomics in December 2013; a "memorable encounter with a beautiful tigress bathing in a Nagzira Wildlife Sanctuary waterhole" inspired him to make a career change from dentist to conservation and wildlife artist, according to the "About" page (https://www.greenhumour.com/p/about.html) on his Green Humour website; on the final day, Friday, Sep. 23, 2022, of the 44th annual meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO), held Monday, Sep. 19, through Friday, Sep. 23, 2022, in Porto, Portugal, "new, historic protections" were granted to Greenland sharks, according to a press release issued Friday, Sep. 23, 2022 by the Shark League for the Atlantic and Mediterranean (https://sharkleague.org/2022/09/23/greenland-shark-granted-historic-international-protection/); "Greenland Shark Fishing Ban" by Green Humour creator Rohan Chakravarty appeared in his Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022, post for his Green Humour Facebook site and also for his Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022, column in the Sci-Tech > Environment section of the Hindu (https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/energy-and-environment/green-humour-rohan-chakravarty/article66052389.ece): Green Humour, via Facebook Oct. 29, 2022, @ https://www.facebook.com/GreenHumour/posts/pfbid037iBx9sCwhhMjKsYEFWfiQznNwxc5FN3FZDxkUqomJeaQZgZ6SfwpfPo8hJ7UYQMrl

Graphic of "Types of Sharks Lifespans" in "How Long Do Sharks Live? Unreaveling the Mystery" by wildlife and marine science writer Kaylee Keech, posted Aug. 7, 2023, on Outforia website (https://outforia.com/how-long-do-sharks-live/); Greenland shark (third row, center) attains "Average Lifespan: 250-500 Years," and Whale Shark (below Greenland shark; fourth row, center) tallies "Average Lifespan: 70-100 Years": Big Blue by Roland St. John, via Facebook March 21, 2023, @ https://www.facebook.com/BigBlueByRoland/posts/notice-the-greenland-sharks-age-/1211232401006675/

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