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Like most large hunters, sharks are slow growing, reach maturity late, and have only a few offspring.
Their large young are usually live-born. Unlike most other fish, which can lay thousands of tiny eggs, sharks produce too few young to compensate for destruction on such a massive scale.
If the slaughter continues unchecked there is no doubt that we'll lose some species altogether, and others will be reduced to near extinction levels within a few decades.
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The Shark Trust Annual Conference 2000
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