screwsloose
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Shark-finning epidemic...
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keywestcoralboy
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I dont think that finning at sea is ethical, responsible, or a serious problem in our side of the world. Anyone who speaks of a lack of sharks in our country has never been to florida.
I think sharks are being caught all over the world. Either as by-catch from tuna fishing or targeted directley.
In 2007, marine biologists at Dalhousie University in Canada analysed records from fisheries and research vessels dating from the 1970s to 2005 and found evidence for a dramatic fall in shark populations. Tiger sharks and scalloped hammerheads had declined more than 97% since the mid-1980s, while numbers of smooth hammerheads and bull sharks fell 99% off the east coast of the US.
Taken from this article.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/feb/19/great-white-shark-endangered-tiger
keywestcoralboy
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There is no way that bull sharks have lost 99 percent of their population, that means while spearfishing when i see 4 large bulls in one area i should see 400?????? that doesnt make sense, and since they banned long lineing down here the sharks have become such a nussiance, hook and line fishing is almost useless, everything getts bitten off by one of those wonderrfull endangered sharks i see everyday...
somehow i feel more inclined to believe scientific research than your sightings...
Quite frankly, most divers, swimmers and even fisherman don't see most of the sharks that are there. Makes casual observation a lousy measure of actual shark (or any other fish) populations. The one's you see while spearfishing are only the only ones that get close enough for you to see. You can bet there's more that you don't see, and it's those numbers that have declined.
dnov99
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No disrespect, but how can you judge the trend in shark populations from your minisicule area that you have your sightings. The are millions of miles of ocean around the world and you think because you see 4 sharks that the population isnt decreasing as said??? I have to disagree.
keywestcoralboy
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believe what you want, skewed 3 year old research
keywestcoralboy
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By the way my original post mentioned this side of the world haveing sharks not that other countries dont rape their oceans i dont speak for them i speak for the hundred mile range i dive, fish, photograph,
I have seen a couple documentaries recently that have mentioned Bull sharks' ability to adapt very well to changing environments, i.e. they eat almost anything, can swim miles upriver into fresh water to find prey, and thus are actually one of the few species of shark that seem able to deal with the pressures on shark populations. So it doesn't surprise me that keywestcoralboy sees plenty of bull sharks. I'd prob die of fright just seeing a big shark swimming near me like that, it must be exhilarating tho!
