This has nothing to do with Greenpeace and no the meat is not used to that extent as it's high in mercury as I stated. Ever seen tinned shark.??????
I saw this on a T.V. programme with Simon Reeve ,a British author and travel presenter who also makes travel documentaries. He was visiting a country where the locals line snag these creatures haul them in and cut the fins off while they are alive then toss the sharks back into the sea.
There is loads of documentation out there and I was totally unaware of this practise until today and it just shocked me.
73 to a 100 million a year is a lot of shark fins . Just saying.
I posted the wrong figure in post 31 it's millions not thousands.
First and foremost how's the boy doing now he's back with Daddy and also are you ok.
This so called delicacy is one of the most expensive soups on a menu but as the meat is high in mercury one would have to limit the intake.
Talking of bison I see that they are slowly being introduced back into the wild and making a comeback from almost extinction.
Sport fishing is huge in the UK and we have special lakes full of carp .I must admit I don't like it but they do allow the fish to survive. Some just fish for river trout and salmon and the sport of a fight with a pike but most are respectful with regards the fish.
You obviously haven't my understood my thread at all.
There is a huge difference in farming animals that are killed humanely and the indiscriminate slaughter of millions of wild life for one small part of its anatomy then leaving it to die .
Just a small sample of how these creatures are left after their fins are removed to make someone a bowl of soup. You find this acceptable
I was watching Simon Reeves on his travels on T.V this am and it showed these fishermen line catching them dragging them ashore and cutting their fins off whilst alive and yes it is barbaric.
I'm not a vegetarian and do eat some meat and love fish so not a holier than thou person by any means but this sickened me.
Is shark fin soup destroying the shark population.?
A rising demand for shark fin soup is wiping out more than 73 million sharks every year, fuelling a practice labelled the marine “gold rush”. Finning, when a shark’s fin is sliced off while at sea and the body dumped back into the ocean, is rampant in many regions – fins are one of the most expensive seafood items, ending up mostly in soup.
I realise that yes we breed, hunt and kill animals for our existence but this to me is abhorrent when a shark's fins are cut off while still alive then tossed back into the ocean. Fins are for sharks not for soup.
As Bodleing has stated it's in Dorset. Although it is a lovely area it is home to The Verne, a category C prison and also home to an institute for young offenders.
Also moored offshore was a prison ship. HM Prison Weare was a Category C prison ship for adult males, berthed at Portland Port in Portland Harbour. It was acquired by the British government in 1997 and remained in use until 2005.
There’s only one Dublin – Baile Atha Cliath, Fair City, the Big Smoke. Well, in Ireland, at least. In the US there are not one, not two, but nine Dublins, and that number rises to eleven if you take townships into consideration. Dublin, Ohio is perhaps the best-known Dublin in the USA.
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Shark fin soup
This has nothing to do with Greenpeace and no the meat is not used to that extent as it's high in mercury as I stated. Ever seen tinned shark.??????I saw this on a T.V. programme with Simon Reeve ,a British author and travel presenter who also makes travel documentaries. He was visiting a country where the locals line snag these creatures haul them in and cut the fins off while they are alive then toss the sharks back into the sea.
There is loads of documentation out there and I was totally unaware of this practise until today and it just shocked me.
73 to a 100 million a year is a lot of shark fins . Just saying.
I posted the wrong figure in post 31 it's millions not thousands.