Where are the Leopard Sharks?

[mase]

I have been diving the Similan Island for the past 10 years. Previously, I would see Leopard Sharks on every trip, however that has changed in the past 2 years. I have done 7 trips (5 last season and 2 this season) and have seen only 1 leopard shark. Sites where I usually found Leopard Sharks have been barren. Is it just a matter of luck or is something else going on? Do we have to go to the market to see a Leopard Shark? Any thoughts?

 

[Allison Finch]

Do we have to go to the market to see a Leopard Shark?​

Sadly.....yes.

 

[DevonDiver]

Do we have to go to the market to see a Leopard Shark?

Or a Chinese restaurant.

 

[mase]

Or a Chinese restaurant.
So sad. So foolish.

 

[lord khram]

So sad. So foolish.

Yes I agree, but very tasty.

 

[Zippsy]

...... but very tasty.

I assume you're talking about the broth, not the fins. ...unless you have some superhuman tastebuds.

 

[Quero]

And the broth is essentially flavored with crab, so it's crab soup with some chewy gristle-like stringy stuff floating in it. (And before anybody claims I have no cultural sensitivity to this, let me say I have been part of a Chinese family for the past 35 years.)

 

[Zippsy]

The stock is chicken broth in Singapore (and I thought most other places) but just take out the fins, add in some noodles and you have my Mother's cure-all for any sickness; i.e., chicken noodle soup.

 

[ben_wilson3301]

And the broth is essentially flavored with crab, so it's crab soup with some chewy gristle-like stringy stuff floating in it. (And before anybody claims I have no cultural sensitivity to this, let me say I have been part of a Chinese family for the past 35 years.)

And your point is? Wrong is wrong, where you live wont excuse it. If it were a sustainable species that would be very different.

 

[Quero]

And your point is? Wrong is wrong, where you live wont excuse it. If it were a sustainable species that would be very different.

Huh? I'm guessing you read my post too fast .... go back and try again and you may realize that I certainly wasn't advocating in favor of shark finning in order to produce soup.

The stock is chicken broth in Singapore (and I thought most other places) but just take out the fins, add in some noodles and you have my Mother's cure-all for any sickness; i.e., chicken noodle soup.

Yes, the stock is chicken, but the flavoring is most often crab meat.