Steven Spielberg laments the impact of his movie Jaws


The American filmmaker Steven Spielberg He lamented this Sunday on the British radio station BBC that the shark population has been “decimated” after the success of his film “Shark” [Jaws, en inglés] in 1975.

“I am very sorry that the shark population has been decimated because of the book and the film. I am very sorry,” the director told the BBC.

Shark“tells the story of a great shark attacking bathers at a seaside resort on the east coast of the United States. The local police chief then decides to hunt down the animal with the help of a marine biologist and a shark hunter.

Spielberg, also known for his films ET, Indiana Jones and Jurassic Park, offered these statements during the Desert Island Discs program, in which the guests tell what music, what book and what luxury object they would take to a desert island.

When asked by the interviewer how he would feel on an uninhabited island, he replied: “It’s one of the things I always fear.” “Not to be eaten by a sharkIt’s just that the sharks are somehow mad at me for the post-1975 crazy sport fisherman eating frenzy.”

According to a study published in the journal Nature last year, the global shark population has declined 71% since the 1970s due to overfishing.

The Shark Conservation Fund [Shark Conservation Fund, que lucha por preservar la especie] For its part, it affirms that 36% of the 1,250 species of sharks and rays in the world are currently in danger of extinction.

Investigators have blamed the film Shark to terrify several generations of bathers.

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