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Will you people please stop ordering "Shark Fin Soup" at your local chinese restaraunt. The practice of catching sharks, cutting off their dorsal fin and throwing them back to die a slow and painful death in the ocean has caused a crash in shark populations worldwide. Oceanic whitetip sharks, once the most common shark in the world, are almost completely extinct, according to a new census. Shark populations generally have dropped by 99% over the last 50 years.
Isn't it interesting that when it comes to fluffy koalas we have all these bleeding hearts wringing their hands but when it is a fish or reptile they show complete indifference. Please get over your ridiculous "Jaws" based attitudes to these magnificent creatures.
When everyone stops ordering shark fin soup fishermen will stop the wasteful carnage of these animals. We can only hope that it will be soon or they will be extinct.
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or read the most recent entries here.If the news story I read today is true, then the sharks (or at least one carpet shark in WA) tried to get its own back by latching on to a guy who was swimming by him and refusing to let go.
Posted by: dan at February 12, 2004 10:16 AMIt's especially sad when you consider that the shark is an evolutionary contemporary of dinosaurs. They lived all this time in bliss and then suddenly (very suddenly, geologically speaking) we come along and WHAM! 99% gone.
Sad sad sad.
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