Aint gonna waste my time to read all this dribble but I will jump to the assumption that this is the shark fishing show debate again. Defended by the shark "experts" as being good for the sharks and the research that they get from it....Search here and you wil get the real facts, not the hype the antis want everyone to hear.....
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Which nations still fin sharks??????? Umm, Hong Kong? BTW, no fishing vessel targets sharks, period, end of story. It's just bycatch. Not that that makes killing them good but most every shark that is finned is dead allready. Is this any worse than corn farmers plowing under baby pheasnts? In life, bad stuff happens. At the top of the food chain, how can we look down on anything?F UNit:
Now go eat your Big Mac and forget where it came from.
Zingtea
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2UKgLsOhRMWildcard:
The is a HUGE shark fin market all over Asia. The Australian Coast Guard is struggling to stop Indonesian poachers that come into Australian waters just to catch sharks. This happens in the Galapagos too. There are almost no sharks left in the far west- and eastern Pacific. Finned sharks are not dead. They're still flailing about in agony as they're thrown finless into the water to bleed to death or slowly be eaten by other fish.
To list a few sources:
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/sorry-sharks-world-fin-trade-may-harvest-up-to-73-million-per-year-11653.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15020727/
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Three-to-Four-Times-More-Sharks-Slaughtered-Annually-for-Their-Fins-Than-Previously-Thought-36963.shtml
EastEndDiver
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Tommorow (tues 9/17) 8 P.M. EST. on espn another episode . For anyone who cares to watch.
EastEndDiver:
I'll be tuning in hoping to see if anyone pulls in a monster
EastEndDiver:
DVR is set to record it . . . for research only . . .
Wildcard:
Which is precisely why being based here in Hong Kong - the centre of the world's shark fin industry - I feel it so necessary to combat the at-present unsustainable shark fin industry.
In this part of the world many, many boats target solely shark fins, and the scale with which they succeed is shocking. These guys aren't regulated as rigourously as they are in other parts of the world, so it is exceedingly difficult to monitor exact figures & details of what fish are being caught.
Wildcard: Please don't be so aggressive to defend yourself over this when you haven't armed yourself with all the facts. - You only need to dive certain regions of the world to see for yourself firsthand that the active targeting of sharks takes place. - Ask the guys on Cabilao Island in the Philippines how exciting Hammerhead point is now that the species that it takes it's name from was completely wiped out by fishermen.
