Appetite for shark fin soup 'causing decline of blue sharks in UK waters'

[Elton]

Study says blue shark population off UK coast is targeted by fisherman using 'wall of death' method, before being sent to Asia

 

More details here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012...-blue-sharks-uk

[seafoods]

More details here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012...-blue-sharks-uk

 

Be better if the author knew what he was talking about. Study says long-line fishing is the cause yet he goes for the emotive 'wall of death' garbage and shows a shark caught in a net. Sensationalist drivel, the study may be worth a read but that rubbish report certainly isn't.

[captain cojones]

par for the course for a guardian environmental article........ :rolleyes:

[Bob Shotter]

par for the course for a guardian environmental article........ :rolleyes:

 

Got to agree there is no shortage of Blue Shark here in the South West even I can catch one.

 

Edited March 15, 2012 by Bob Shotter

[captain cojones]

Tasty............. :lol:

[Worms]

Got to agree there is no shortage of Blue Shark here in the South West even I can catch one.

 

Nice doggie Bob...........

 

Just noticed the rod in the corner.....after Mako?

Edited March 16, 2012 by Worms

[cleeclive]

Nice doggie Bob...........

 

Just noticed the rod in the corner.....after Mako?

 

 

This shark problem, if it is a problem? is of course strongly influenced by the high prices paid for fins and the growing wealth among the Chinese. I recall Omani beach boat fishermen being very excited if they caught a shark as its fins were worth more than a boat full of yellow-fin tuna when I worked there.