SAN FRANCISCO CELEBRATES SHARKS: “We want to try to reverse the perception that sharks are evil and harmful, and try to turn it around to ‘sharks are cool’ and really important to our local ecosystems,” says David McGuire, a Research Associate at the California Academy of Sciences who will be leading a discussion at the SHARKTOBERFEST event. “It’s really a celebration of sharks all month long, to raise awareness and to heighten attention to the fact that sharks are endangered, sharks are threatened and the health of the ocean is suffering because of that.”While the Discovery Channel and the rest of the cable TV-watching world have “Shark Week” each summer, here along the Northern California coast we get an entire month of celebrations in the fall with “Sharktober.”Named for the time of the year when great white sharks start reappearing in local waters more frequently—particularly around the Gulf of the Farallones off the coast from San Francisco Bay—“Sharktober” is a theme adopted by local conservancy groups and other agencies in an effort to expand public knowledge about the animal. sfstation/2013/10/01/sharktoberfest-celebrates-sharks-in-san-francisco/
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