What Would Happen If Sharks Disappeared?

Shark populations worldwide are under enormous pressure due to overfishing. So what happens to an ecosystem when apex predators like sharks disappear? We talk to Discovery Channel shark advisor Andy DeHart to find out.

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[EnEmarkThe]

@CameraManSW The morale of this story is, WE WANT SHRIMPS!

[CameraManSW]

@hendricksjamie Oh c'mon you should know why sharks are on this planet. Sharks are here to kill or be killed like everything else on this planet. Humans kill, not all humans have to kill because we have other people to do it for us. Shark steak anyone?

[CameraManSW]

Yeah we care so much about sharks now that we're top of the food chain. I would like to see people care if sharks were the ones hunting us down. If shark could kill us they would.

[cryostation]

@ttv0 youre a good man(or woman) add me to your friends:D

[ttv0]

@cryostation i agree with what you said and if someone calls them that they can't say shit because anyone who does that needs much more horrible things.i am glad you think that they should stop i have gotten into fights over people who say "we should kill them all"

[cryostation]

@ctraver well there are voices that say we are in the midst of a mass extiction event, and humans are in the middle of it all. scientifically i have no problem calling the rape of our planet an extinction event. i am just shocked that with all this technology and progress we humans have managed to become nothing more than just a self-preserving beast. not only that but not even an einteresting one... an ugly vile chimera that is the deffinition of humanity

[cryostation]

@ttv0 notice the irony these dumb idiots are worried about RACISM when one of the most magnificent creatures the earth ever produced, the most beautiful predator is about to dissapear. i dont give a shit if GOOKS are offended, i am not offended in the least no matter what someone calls me, the most important thing is the sharks survival. there are already too many dumb humans on this planet

[ttv0]

@cryostation thank for the racist but true comment.no sarcasm intended

[mortl8324]

So since the stingrays have no predators, they over eat the shellfish? Well if sharks predators are humans. And humans have no predators and so overeat sharks, we should make predators to hunt down humans.

[EDROCKSWOO]

NEXT THING U KNOW SHARKS FIND OUT THT HUMANS ARE THE REAL THREAT TO THIS PLANET AND THEY GO TO SHORE AND EAT ANYONE WWHO COMES IN THE WATER.