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6.
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7.
Jennifer L. Molinar, ed.,
The Atlas of Global Conservation: Changes, Challenges, and Opportunities to Make a Difference
(Berkeley: University of California Press and the Nature Conservancy, 2010), p. 155.

  
8.
Juliet Eilperin, “Hawaiian Marine Reserve to Be the World’s Largest: Bush to Designate National Park in Pacific Waters,”
Washington Post
, June 15, 2006.

  
9.
Nicholas A. J. Graham, Mark D. Spalding, and Charles R. C. Sheppard, “Reef Shark Declines in Remote Atolls Highlight the Need for Multi-faceted Conservation Action,”
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
20, no. 5 (2010).

10.
Daniel G. Boyce, Marlon R. Lewis, and Boris Worm, “Global Phytoplankton Decline Over the Past Century,”
Nature
466 (2010), pp. 591–96.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Juliet Eilperin graduated from Princeton University. She works as
The Washington Post
’s national environmental reporter, covering science, policy, and politics in areas including climate change and oceans. She lives with her family in Washington, D.C.

Several species of sharks congregate at Triangle Rocks off Bimini, where researchers from Sonny Gruber’s Shark Lab observe them.
Photo by Grant Johnson

The mechanical shark Bruce, shown here on the set of the movie
Jaws
, which terrified moviegoers across America in the 1970s.
Photo by Edith Blake

A shark-fin dealer in Hong Kong’s Sai Ying Poon neighborhood preparing dried fins to sell to restaurants.
Photo by Juliet Eilperin

Mark “the Shark” Quartiano, shown here with a dead hammerhead he’s caught, makes a living taking tourists and celebrities to fish sharks off Miami Beach.
Photo by Mark Quartiano

Selam Karasimbe ventures out in a canoe off Kavieng, hoping to attract and fight sharks that are becoming increasingly rare.
Photo by Juliet Eilperin

Gray reef sharks swim over a pristine coral reef on the fore reef of Malden Island, in the southern Line Islands.
Photo by Enric Sala

Blacktip reef sharks use the pristine lagoon of Millennium Atoll in the southern Line Islands as a nursery. While the United States has afforded protection status to Palmyra and Kingman in the northern Line Islands, three others in that chain (Kiritimati, Tabuaeran, and Teraina) and the five southern Line Islands (Flint, Vostok, Millennium, Malden, and Starbuck) belong to the nation of Kiribati and do not enjoy such safeguards.
Photo by Enric Sala

A male Raja Ampat epaulette shark, or
Hemiscyllium freycineti
, sucking on the tail of its female partner.
Photo by Dos Winkel