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Shark species face extinction
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Elementary
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1. The shark population is falling rapidly because of…
2. The scallop fishery in North Carolina closed because…
3. People catch sharks for their fins because…
4. Scientists call one place “the white shark café” because…
5. Shark numbers can fall very quickly because…
6. Scientists are going to put scalloped hammerhead sharks on the list of endangered species because…
a. … sharks return there again and again.
b. … there is a real danger that they will become extinct. 
c. … there were no sharks to eat the cownose rays.
d. … they can sell them for a lot of money.
e. … fishing and finning.
f. … they take a long time to grow to adult size.
Match the beginnings and endings to make sentences about the text.
reserves around these areas, it will help to 
protect these species and will provide the public 
with places where they can see sharks in their 
natural habitat.”
One site between Hawaii and Mexico attracts 
so many sharks that scientists call it ‘the white 
shark cafe’, Klimley says. “We started calling 
it the cafe because that is where you might go 
to have a snack or maybe just to ‘see and be 
seen’. We are not sure which,” said Salvador 
Jorgensen, a researcher at Stanford University’s 
Hopkins Marine Station. “When they leave the 
cafe they return year after year to the same 
exact spot along the coast, just as people return 
to a favourite fishing hole.”
© Guardian News & Media 2008
First published in The Guardian, 18/02/08
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