@mermaid.kayleigh: Videos of me by @andriana_marine 🦈💙 Why am I so sassy with this voice!? Shark tourism shows an alternative way to profit off these amazing animals without profiting off killing them for their fins & meat. Sharks are worth more alive than dead. Shark fishing is legal in many places in the world & shark tourism keeps the sharks near a tourist boat vs a fishing boat. It can also give fishermen an alternative income vs fishing. The biggest detriment to sharks is commercial fishing so the best way to save them is to eat less or no seafood so they cannot be caught as bycatch. Additionally, being in the water with them has allowed us to directly save them by removing fishing line, nets, bucket rims & other debris left by humans. Some may argue any human presence of any kind is harmful to wildlife but the alternative is humans having a no contact policy & therefore having no connection to them. When humans have no connection they often don't care about them & don't care about them being killed (what happened in the jaws era). If you prefer a zero contact policy, you should also be passionate about being vegan because the animals on our plate endure a much worse fate than sharks swimming freely in the ocean. #savesharks #tigersharks #sharkdiving #ocean