Sunday, October 21, 2012

Shark Finning Has Gone Too Far


"Shark finning hitting Gulf sharks hard"


              India, Asia, and many other countries are finning sharks and dumping there bodies back into the sea. Fishermen all around are killing as many as 70 million sharks a year for there fins. The fin trade has devastated many shark species such as hammerhead, oceanic whitetip, blue, threashers and silky sharks just for there fins. How wasteful and heartless. This is an important article because if we don't stop this soon, the next generation will be asking what a shark is! A shark! It's also important because if the population of sharks is wiped out, our whole food chain will become a disaster and things will start to die out.



FILE - In this Tuesday, June 12, 2012 file photo, workers cut shark fins at a fish market in Dubai , United Arab Emirates. Fishermen across the globe kill as many as 70 million sharks each year for their fins, which can sell for $700 a pound (450 grams), while the soup prized for Chinese banquets and weddings can cost $100 a bowl. The fin trade has devastated several species including hammerheads, oceanic whitetip, blue, threshers and silky and contributed to 181 shark and ray species being listed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as threatened with extinction. The trade is legal, though efforts are being made to ban the practice of "finning" hacking the fins off of sharks and throwing the rest overboard, often when they are still alive. Four years ago, under international pressure, the UAE joined the growing number of countries banning the practice. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)
http://news.yahoo.com/shark-finning-hitting-gulf-sharks-hard-062727489.html
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