Zoe74
December 10th, 2008, 08:55 PM
I am sickened by this:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/10/pip.shark.finning/index.html
The part that I find especially appalling was this excerpt:
To satiate the appetites of upwardly mobile Chinese, fishermen traverse all corners of the Earth's oceans in search of sharks or, more specifically, their fins. Because space is limited on fishing vessels and shark bodies are bulky and not considered as valuable, fishermen often catch the sharks, saw off their fins and toss the sharks back into the water. Without their fins, sharks cannot swim and they sink to the ocean floor, where they're picked at by other fish and left to die.
It's awful when stuff like this is happening so far away in another part of the world and I feel so powerless to stop it. :furious:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/12/10/pip.shark.finning/index.html
The part that I find especially appalling was this excerpt:
To satiate the appetites of upwardly mobile Chinese, fishermen traverse all corners of the Earth's oceans in search of sharks or, more specifically, their fins. Because space is limited on fishing vessels and shark bodies are bulky and not considered as valuable, fishermen often catch the sharks, saw off their fins and toss the sharks back into the water. Without their fins, sharks cannot swim and they sink to the ocean floor, where they're picked at by other fish and left to die.
It's awful when stuff like this is happening so far away in another part of the world and I feel so powerless to stop it. :furious: