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LESSON 3 · Life in the Deep

PAUSE TO THINK

For every person a shark kills, how many sharks do people kill?

Roughly ten million.

Sharks kill about ten people in a typical year. People kill an estimated **100 million sharks** a year, mostly for their fins. The math is lopsided in the opposite direction from the one most people fear.

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