Before the mass extinction, the top ocean predators were primitive sharks.

在大规模灭绝之前，高等海洋肉食生物是远古的鲨鱼。

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Ocean predators Immerse yourself deep into the ocean in search of the most dangerous predators in our seas.

海洋掠食者沉浸到大海深处在我们的海洋中最危险的食肉动物搜索。

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In the ocean，we fished for top predators such as cod.

在海洋中，我们捕捞像鳕鱼这样的顶级食肉动物。

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"We must stop the shark-finning which is resulting in the death of thirty to seventy million sharks each year because that has so upset ocean ecology by the removal of these often apex, top-level predators."

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While there certainly are open-ocean predators, most shark threats are in the shallows and near food sources.

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Dr Julia Baum, a marine ecologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, US, and a member of the World Conservation Union (IUCN), said excessive fishing was putting many of the ocean's "most majestic predators" at risk of extinction.

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Although we live in an ever larger global village and international investing is growing, that does not mean that there are fewer predators in an ever larger ocean.

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