While I strive for at least some shred of originality in this blog, I wanted to ask again that you sign the gill net petition. Juvenile white sharks are getting caught in these underwater “walls of death” along with dolphins, whales, turtles and countless other species. 15,000 more signatures are needed so please share! 
Category Archives: Marine Conservation
Day 265 3/18/14: Take Action: Ban Gill Nets in California
Please sign Oceana’s petition to ban gill nets in California. Endangered whales, sea turtles, dolphins, sharks and other wildlife are caught in these nets that are meant to catch swordfish. You can see victims of California’s gill nets here. Warning: these are graphic images.
Day 262 3/15/14: Making Way for Sharks in the Maldives
This picture by Karl Robertson is so gorgeous. The schools of fish look almost like feathers or lush grass. (Thanks Piper!!)
Day 261 3/14/14: See a Lemon Shark Give Birth!
For more videos like this, check out: bestsharkvideos.com
Day 260 3/13/14: “The Shark & I Had an Understanding….”
Sensing a rare (dare I say) spiritual connection, shark legend Valerie Taylor dares to hand feed a great white.
Day 249 3/1/14: When Sharks are Gone….
I really like that this piece by Lily Williams addresses the horror of shark finning and its consequences and somehow manages to be playful.
(Thanks for finding this Ani!)
Day 246 2/26/14: Good News L.A.! Sharks in Venice Canals
Leopard sharks will always have a place in my heart because they are the first shark I ever saw in the ocean and I swear one raised her head from of those sad “petting” tanks at the Santa Monica Aquarium and looked straight at me once.
Anyway, they’re shy and gorgeous and swimming in the canals of Venice, California.
( Thanks Brandy, for this bit of good news)
P.S. While trying to find the link to the story, I stumbled on yet another bad shark movie: Sharks in Venice (Italy, of course) starring Stephen Baldwin.
Day 245 2/25/14: Divers Save Dying Shark
Human beings never cease to completely baffle me.
In Australia, tiger sharks are being hooked, drown and shot as part of an ineffective “cull” program, while in the same waters divers and veterinarians collaborate in an elaborate attempt to save this grey nurse shark from being suffocated by a piece of plastic wound tightly around its neck.
(Tip of the fin to Connie for sending this one!)
Day 243 2/23/14: The Sweetest Hangover (I don’t want to get over)
Yes, I do have a hangover today—one born not only of vodka, but of LOVE.
WOW! So much fun at JAWS: An Evening Of Relentless Terror & Really Awkward Sex! Hilarious readers, really fun audience, sold out of shark cupcakes, laughed our asses off and raised over $1000 for sharks. Thank you again to our most talented cast: Dan Koeppel, Peter Gilstrap, Andrew Quintero, Sandi Hemmerlein, Jessica Groper, Erik Odom, Jack Morrissey! What a talented bunch. AND Helen Kim, Connie Pearson, Gail Gibson, Jennifer Alessi & Lisa Stone & Renee Patton for all your hard work.
The 
sharks love you and so do I!!!
Day 242 2/22/14: JAWS: Countdown to Ecstasy!
I am way too busy/excited/distracted to blog today. Why so busy? So animated? Why, there are only a few mere HOURS to go before the hilarious and astounding JAWS benefit reading: An Evening of Relentless Terror and Really Awkward Sex!
Recoil as the shark reduces Chrissie Watkins to a mass of bone and jelly!
Thrill as married Ellen Brody reveals her torrid sexual fantasies to a cocky marine biologist!
Marvel at Martin Brody’s immense bladder!
Gasp as Quint makes fun of the shark’s genitals!
All for a mere $10!
Shark Dreams 