This website contains age-restricted materials including nudity and explicit depictions of sexual activity.
By entering, you affirm that you are at least 18 years of age or the age of majority in the jurisdiction you are accessing the website from and you consent to viewing sexually explicit content.
They pretty sure may and pretty sure will.
At other extinction events deep water dwelling creatures had good chances to survive. Also sharks don’t have complex food needs, are widespread over the globe and procreate without much ado (no familie structures and such, their approach is quantity based)… They will do fine.
I hope you are right, 100 million sharks a year is a lot of sharks to lose
Aren’t most of those only a few species of shark?
Trawling doesn’t discriminate and the sharks are usually injured so badly that they die a slow painful death after being thrown overboard again, that’s if they’re not dead already.
They are likely not totally immune to the effects of climate change, however
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ocean-acidification-could-eat-away-at-sharks-teeth-and-scales/