Informative Speech: Sharks Finning

Informative Speech: Sharks Finning

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Topic: Sharks Finning

General Purpose: To Inform

Specific Purpose: To inform the audience on sharks finning practice, its impact, and how to fight against it.

Thesis: Sharks finning is a practice of plucking fins from a living shark, and such practice interferes with the ecosystem. Hence, countries fight against the practice by banning the use of fin products.

Introduction: Man should benefit from animals. However, he has the responsibility to take good care of them.

1. Attention Getter: People mostly realize the importance of a thing once it is out of their hands.
2. Relevance Statement: Life sharks have more benefits than their body parts.
3. Thesis Statement: Fishermen still practice sharks finning despite the negative impacts. However, nations are formulating strategies to stop it.
4. Credibility Statement:
5. I am passionate about animals (terrestrial, aquatic, and amphibians); hence sharks finning is of my great concern.
6. I spend more time researching and advocating for sharks protection, thus when people engage in sharks finning; I feel betrayed.

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7. Preview of Main Points:
8. Sharks finning is an exercise of plucking the fins from a live shark.
9. Sharks help in balancing the ecosystem, especially in oceans.
10. Nations banned the use of fins products in an attempt to counter finning.
11. 2. Body
12. Sharks Finning.
13. Sharks finning is an exercise of hunting sharks, cut off their fins, and throw back the rest living body back in the ocean.
    1. Iloulian (2016) claim that the demand for products made from fins, like soaps and cultural values facilitate the exercise, especially in Hong Kong.
    2. The modern technology of fishing made it relatively easier for fishers to conduct the activity without stress, which could limit others to engage in such activities.

Transition Statement: Some nations engage in sharks fining concentrating on the fins profits without realizing the benefit they can get from Sharks without killing them.

1. Ecosystem.

1. Sharks finning has reduced the population of sharks, which plays a crucial role in balancing the marine ecosystem.
2. Sharks are the dominant predator within the ocean. Hence, eliminating them leads to an unbalanced fish population (Golby, 2015).
3. Mostly, people focus more on the benefit of fins and fail to recognize the fish population balance.
4. Sharks purify oceans, thus promoting the health of other aquatic animals.
5. Sharks can feed on dead organisms in the waters, which can harm other species and later transfer diseases to human beings (Iloulian, 2016). However, people continue threatening their life and our general health (Strickland, 2017).
6. Sharks have significant benefits in our ecosystem, and it is vital to protect them.

Transition Statement: Nevertheless, some people know the negative impact of shark finning, but still practice. Therefore, it is essential to review one of the strategies countries use to pin down finning (Shiffman et al. 2017).

1. Ban of the use of fin products.
   1. Many nations are advocating for the ban of fin products from the global market to reduce the demand for fins and consequently reduce the finning activities.
   2. According to Liu, Gertz & Newman (2019), the finning practice cannot stop if there is a demand for fin products.
   3. If the market for fin products is closed, fishers will opt for other activities rather than finning. Perhaps, restore and promote the sharks’ population.

Conclusion

1. Review of Main Points:
   1. Shark finning is a clue activity of slicing off the fins and discard the rest living shark to die in waters.
   2. Sharks help in balancing the ecosystem; thus, there is a need to protect them.
   3. The banning of fin products is one primary strategy countries are promoting to conserving sharks.
2. Restate Thesis: I hope you have discovered how fishers do shark finning, its impact, and the mechanism nations are putting in place to counter sharks finning.
3. Memorable closing Thought: The rate of shark finning is higher than their rate of production, which calls for immediate action.

Reference

Golby, C. A. (2015). Conservation education in shark ecotourism.

Iloulian, J. (2016). From shark finning to shark fishing: A strategy for the US & EU to combat

shark finning in China & Hong Kong. Duke Envtl. L. & Pol’y F., 27, 345.

Liu, J. C. E., Gertz, B., & Newman, N. (2019). Shark Fin Regulations in the United States:

Animal Welfare, Cultural, and Policy Considerations. Case Studies in the Environment.

Shiffman, D. S., Macdonald, C., Ganz, H. Y., & Hammerschlag, N. (2017). Fishing practices and

representations of shark conservation issues among users of a land-based shark angling

online forum. Fisheries Research, 196, 13-26.