Every year for every shark that has killed a human, untold millions of sharks are killed...?

Question

ONLY for their fins, just so ignorant people can have a bowl of shark fin soup. The people that eat the shark fin soup, for the most part, are maybe unaware of the disastrous effects that the so-called "delicacy" that they are enjoying is having on the natural environment but they probably wouldn't care even if they knew the horrific details pertaining to the capture and de-finning of those magnificent animals whose numbers are rapidly being depleted just so people in China can eat a bowl of shark fin soup. My question is, at what point will the goverment of China realize that it can no longer continue to eat "delacacies" that are not sustainable? What can the world community do to "encourage" the Chinese to not support these sorts of environmentally unsound and wasteful ways?

Another question: When will the maritime authorities step up to the plate and strictly enforce, with severe penalties and

fines, laws that should already be firmly in place to stop this disaster?

Answer 1

... while millions more sharks swim about totally ignoring all that and simply looking for their next meal, whether human, shark bodies thrown overboard without fins, or whatever.

And FYI, it's the Japanese that enjoy shark fin soup. Chinese eat rice, lots and lots of rice, or if they live in cities, occasionally Kentucky Fried Chicken or McDonald's, with rice on the side.

Answer 2

Did you ever see jaws,  I hope the kill every single one, till there is none except what is in an aquarium or a museums.   all, everyone.  dead.  Get it?

Answer 3

you could add this on with

chickens

cows

pigs

sheep

turtles

frogs

turkeys

fish

these animals have been treated horrific and terrible by humans just for food

Answer 4

And sharks kill humans for food when they have millions of fish in the sea..

I hope you're vegetarian, b/c you never said anything about cows, pigs, chicken.

I'm a vegetarian.

Answer 5

Yes, it's pretty sad.  But it wont' stop as long as human greed and selfishness endures...

Someone mentioned, "Sharks kill humans for food!" Haha!  Ummmm...no they don't.  Sadly, I've heard this misconception far too often.  It's people who like to eat shark (or their fins, anyway).  Most sharks don't like to eat people...we must taste bad.  That's why people who die from shark attacks are rarely eaten.  They are bitten, and when the shark realized it's bit something it doesn't want to eat (a disgusting human and not a tasty seal), it lets go...and the victim bleeds profusely.  Blood loss and tissue damage is what usually kills shark attack victims, NOT being consumed by the shark itself.

Sharks aren't as dangerous as the media would like us to think they are.  Every year in the USA there are more deaths from bee stings than from shark attacks!  There are hundreds of species of sharks, and only a handful that are dangerous to humans.  In fact, I see little sharks all the time when I go surfing.  They are wimps; they are very skittish and do anything to get out of the way.  Sea lions scare me more than the sharks.

Anyhow, if you're interested in sharks, conservation, and all that, here's a great site you might be interested in:

http://www.sharktrust.org/

Enjoy.

Answer 6

No one can control fishing practices outside their own countries boundaries, and most can't control them within their boundaries.  Just because a government recognises the problem of overfishing doesn't mean it can control poaching.

But "responsible" governments can refuse to buy products from those countries in protest ... so can you.  Don't buy Japanese or Chinese goods if you don't support their environmental practices.

Answer 7

The problem is that much of the worlds ocean is beyond the economic exclusion zone and therefore beyond the power of any country to control thus until this zone is policed no animal or habitat will be safe from exploitation