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Overfishing is the main reason, but also because females only give birth every 2 to 3 years instead of every year. Also, most females give birth to an average of only 4 pups at a time, unlike other species (for example, the hammerhead can give birth to 30 or 40 pups). Black tips are one of the shorter lived sharks, only living for about 12 years. However, they don't reach sexual maturity until they're 4 years of age. That leaves them only 8 years to reproduce, doing so only every 2-3 years.

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