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The last thing I want to do is increase the hits on the video below as the poster of it on youtube is probably tossing himself off with the excitement of it -
- But is killing and slicing up an endangered species and ripping the young from it for beer filled entertainment with their own kids something mature adults with any intelligence whatsoever should be doing ? Is it the way young kids are now being taught ?
Incredible ignorance, environmentally dumb, senseless killing of endangered species and the type of people who should be locked away to prevent them breeding any further ! Disgusted.
Umm. The YouTube video states that the pregnant hammerhead shark was caught in South Carolina.
Hammerhead sightings are rather rare here in Southern California. There have been a couple of reported sightings in recent years in the San Diego area.
I realize that shark-finning practices throughout the world have decimated shark populations.
I also know that the great hammerhead and the scalloped hammerhead are on the IUCN Red List of endangered species. The smalleye hammerhead is listed as "vulnerable." Not sure which species of hammerhead is featured in the YouTube video. AFAIK, there are actually 9 different species of hammerhead sharks.
In the U.S., the hammerhead shark is managed as a "large coastal shark" on the U.S. Highly Migratory Species Fishery Management Plan.
My mistake, I got the link via an email written in Chinese, that said when translated "look what the Americans are teaching their kids in California" ... but you are quite right, looks like my translation error - the video was entitled as being from Southern Carolina -- on the opposite coast of course ! I've corrected title on the thread.
The good news is, it seems the orginal poster on Youtube has pulled the video, or perhaps Youtube pulled it, as bad taste is one thing, but bad taste and educating kids in the same vein is another - fishing is fishing, but slicing any such creature open and jokingly sharing out the offspring to kids while swigging the beer and laughing about it is just sick, hopefully the orginator of the video has felt a little remorse, or perhaps got the message that educated people should know a little better.
Whew... it was in South Carolina rather than here in SoCal. Pretty stupid and despicable.
Of course here in the San Diego area SOME (I emphasize the word) spearos are apparently targeting seven gill sharks because one had a shark either do a test nip or a missed attempt to snag a fish on a stringer close to the spearo's body. The spearo who experienced the incident actually called for others not to engage in this behavior, but the hot heads in the group apparently are eager to kill a shark.
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