Help to stop shark finning!

[scuba_fiend]

Stumbled across this petition to stop shark finning.

It's got a lot of good backers - Sea Shepherd, Wild Aid etc - so might be worth checking it out.

You can find the petition at:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/endsharkfinning

 

[ReefTroll]

I struggle to see how a few digitized names on an internet page can sway anybody with the "powers that be" to change this when they haven't after all the other work being done in relation to the act.

 

[Amphibious]

It's got a lot of good backers - Sea Shepherd, Wild Aid etc - so might be worth checking it out.

"good backers" and "Sea Shepherd" should never be used in the same sentence.

 

[Mr. X]

Watch some old footage of an Oz spearing couple this week. They're regularly on one of the freeview channels. Seems like they've been involved in filming the oceans and campaigning for marine conservation for decades. One of the items they covered this week was shark finning. In some parts of the world they remove all the fins and the tail WHILE THE SHARK IS STILL ALIVE and then throw the sharks back in the sea, STILL ALIVE. The sharks are helpless and sink to the sea bed to die slowly, which they filmed -- very sick:yack

The couple also managed to gain protection for nurse sharks in Australian waters. They'd mistakenly been targeted as people killers/attackers. Supposedly there are no known cases of a nurse shark attacking a human. The showed footage of youngsters happily powerheading nurse sharks using spears equipped with 12 ga cartridges and letting the bodies slip back into the sea unused & dead. Not good.

 

[CarbonCod]

I blame the people using/eating ther sharkfins

I witnessed the sharkfinning first hand. The sad thing is that these fishermen would never do this normaly, but because the money is so good. We used to pull their lines and cut the sharks free. The buyers of the sharkfins where chinese. I blame them.

 

[jay cluskey]

its a crime . the consiquences of which we are not yet are aware of . mans insatiable desire to pillage the planet of all its resources will not affect this generation but we are starting to see changes already.
i just hope actions are taken in time to preserve all species including us.