Shark Awareness Day is observed on July 14 of every year.
Theme for the year 2019 is "The sharks in crisis: a call to action for the Mediterranean."
The World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) said that more than half of shark and ray species in the Mediterranean were under threat due to overfishing and plastic pollution.
The report highlights the major crisis area at Libya and Tunisia three times that of the next biggest Mediterranean fisher, Italy.