Shots In The Dark

Some months back, the Monterey Aquarium in California was given a young great white shark that had been captured by a fisherman. Great white sharks have never survived in captivity, but this one did, and attendance at the aquarium soared as people came to see this remarkable animal.

Now the shark has grown too big and has started to eat the other fish—hate it when that happens—and so the aquarium had to release the animal into the wild.

We can only wish it well. According to Peter Benchley in this month's issue of Men's Journal, sharks kill about 12 humans a year. And every year, we kill about 90 million sharks. No, that's not a typo. Ninety million.