Coral Sea

Fishes of another sort figure in our Geo Quiz today. We wanted to know the name of the sea off Australia's north east coast.

It's where conservationists are studying sharks that swim in and around the Great Barrier Reef.

An international team of scientists reported today that 11 out of 21 species, more than half, of oceanic sharks are threatened with extinction.

They blame over fishing...and the increasing demand for "shark fin soup". Australia's sharks are no exception. They're at risk says Richard Leck with World Wildlife Fund Australia.

“Currently the Coral Sea is virtually unprotected. It has no main protected areas anywhere in the region and so the first step is to embark on putting a marine protected area over the entire Coral Sea.”

So the Coral Sea shark habitat off the coast of Queensland Australia is the answer to our Geo Quiz.