The Sharks, the Dogs, and the Fishermen.

For all you cat and dog lovers out there... this might just make your blood boil. It is simply horrendous. By the way, the National Geographic article is from October 2005. And for those of you who are skeptical or want another source to clarify, you can read this article from Snopes.



This practice is disgusting and must end. Animal lovers, ocean lovers, everyone who isn't a Nazi or a disgusting sadist needs to support me here. This practice must stop. It is not okay to kill sharks. It is not okay to torture animals. And it is utterly, disgustingly barbaric to stick large fish-hooks through the snouts and paws of still living cats and dogs, let them bleed for a full day, and then take the still LIVING, BLEEDING animals on ships and drop them overboard, letting the blood attract sharks who then impale themselves on the giant hooks. This practice actually took place on the French island of Réunion. Some islanders believe stray cats and dogs are nothing but vermin and that they can freely practice this kind of fishing. Since these actions are illegal, the practice now takes place under the cover of nightfall.

The fishing of sharks is bad for the ecology in the first place, because sharks are slow reproducers and top predators, they are not replenishing anywhere near as fast as the rate they are fished, and furthermore as top predators, the killing of a shark is the equivalent on land of the killing of a tiger or lion, and by removing these top predators, we are upsetting the entire balance of ecology below them, having knock-on effects that can even lead to plankton depletion and quicker global climate change when our largest carbon-dioxide removing and oxygen producing plankton populations get decimated. Now on top of this, there are civilized people barbarically torturing our pets, "man's best friend", in pursuit of killing sharks which is ecologically devastating to start out with. Did these people learn morality from a 1930's Nazi secret police training school? I hope one day these monsters will pay for their crimes.


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posted by Sage @ 8/26/2008 04:04:00 PM Comments: 0