Shark-finning epidemic...

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Although there may be controversy regarding what entails responsible reef-keeping, I think we may all agree that shark-finning is not responsible ocean-keeping!!!
See the link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJG7RaLX-DM

(the footage of the finned shark bleeding to death in the aquarium was actually taken last year (2009) by a scuba diver in Raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia)
 
good one, these commercials need to be aired in Hong Kong and China, not some English version... to the non-target audiences.

And honestly, the bleeding shark is too mild, it need to be shown how it is really done with blood all over the place to show the damages.
 
You have to see the movie "Sharkwater"!! It truly is an amazing and sobering look at what the shark fin trade is doing to the shark population. Trust me i have never been so moved by a documentary like this one. You can get it from Netflix too:

http://www.sharkwater.com
 
Really it wont matter all that much if you ask me sharks have been one of the top preditors in the ocean for millions of years i dont think we could get rid of em if we wanted too. People will continue to eat what they always have its part of who they are and how they were rased.
 
keegoaz said:
Really it wont matter all that much if you ask me sharks have been one of the top preditors in the ocean for millions of years i dont think we could get rid of em if we wanted too. People will continue to eat what they always have its part of who they are and how they were rased.
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Well its thinking like that, which has caused us to push thousands of creatures of this planet into extinction. Extremely sad and unfortunate if you ask me.
 
keegoaz said:
Really it wont matter all that much if you ask me sharks have been one of the top preditors in the ocean for millions of years i dont think we could get rid of em if we wanted too. People will continue to eat what they always have its part of who they are and how they were rased.
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It doesn't matter if sharks are an apex predator and have been for millions of years if humans are killing tens of millions of sharks every year. Do the math.
 
There were less than 2 billion people 100 years ago, 3 billion people 50 years ago, and we are way over 6 billion today. The increase is geometric. On the other hand, the number of sharks is smaller than it has ever been, and the technology for catching them has gotten much more efficient. Perhaps people just continue doing what they have always done, but there are more people, a LOT more, with more on the way, and better equiped to catch every last fish, turtle, snake, clam, shrimp, and anything else that can be eaten or sold. Here in NJ, I've seen vanloads of recent immigrants scraping every last barnacle off bulkheads and ripping up every last mussle in beds that are exposed at low tide. We are consuming our world much faster than it can regrow, especially the seas. We are digging our own graves with our mouths.
 
Personally i would never eat shark fin soup because in Oz we have problems with malayasian and indonesian poachers in our waters who cut the fins and throw the rest of the shark away, it's abhorrent.
I wouldn't have a problem if it was part of a managed industry that took stock of the population and used the entire fish rather than culling them just for their fins and if they were a resource properly managed. Being an apex predator though they are a very difficult to sustainably harvest, they usually have a low birth rate and are uneconomical to farm.
The thing that annoys me is that they pillage their own seas and wipe out their sharks and then they come hunting ours.
 
If anybody gets a chance rent the movie "The Cove", its about the dolphin slaughter in Taijii Japan. It is beyond sickening!!! It amazes how the Japanese fishing industries absolutely pillage the oceans of every living creature and nothing is done about it. Whales, sharks, dolphins, blue fin tuna. Where does it end??!!!
 
Whale Wars on Discovery is a good example too. One ship slaughtering whales had a big sign saying "Don't worry, we are collecting whales for research"

They obviously weren't...
 
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