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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
A local villager out on community patrol near the island of Batanta, Raja Ampat, guarding against cyanide and blast fishing. Photo by Sterling Zumbrunn/Copyright © Conservation International
Wayag Lagoon, in Raja Ampat, is host to an array of fish species and hard corals. After years of negotiations, Selpele and Salio villagers agreed to ban damaging fishing practices in the area. Photo by Sterling Zumbrunn/Copyright © Conservation International
A whale shark swims on May 28, 2010, in waters off Sarasota, Florida, where it was satellite-tagged for research by scientists at Mote Marine Laboratory. Mote researchers are using satellite tagging to track the travels of whale sharks, whose migration patterns they still do not fully understand. Photo by Kim Hull/Mote Marine Laboratory
A great white pursues a seal—one of its favorite prey species—off the coast of South Africa. Photo by Neil Hammerschlag
Great whites are perhaps best known for their teeth, which grow in rows to replace those that break or become worn. Photo by Neil Hammerschlag
In less than a second, a great white launches its one-ton body in pursuit of a seal off Seal Island, South Africa, a frequent phenomenon that attracts both tourists and researchers to the area. Photo by Neil Hammerschlag
A rare oceanic white tip, accompanied by pilot fish, cuts through the open ocean in the Indian Ocean’s Mozambique Channel. This species used to be common, but researchers have found it declined by 99 percent during the second half of the twentieth century. Photo by Neil Hammerschlag
A curious blue shark cruises in from the open seas off Rhode Island to investigate the scene. The species engages in such a rough mating ritual that female blue sharks have significantly thicker skin than their male counterparts. Photo by Neil Hammerschlag