http://conservationreport.com/2008/07/15/shark-week-are-shark-fishing-tournaments-necessary/ Tracking news regarding conservation, the environment, energy, politics, and technology Sat, 26 May 2012 21:46:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://conservationreport.com/2008/07/15/shark-week-are-shark-fishing-tournaments-necessary/#comment-11368 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 22:19:36 +0000 http://conservationreport.wordpress.com/?p=822#comment-11368 I believe commercial fishing is is a truly useless and wasteful sport. 40,000,000 blue sharks (and other species) are already killed every year due to japan’s shark finning. (Where fishermen catch sharks just to cut off their dorsal and pectoral fins to use for soup, throwing the finless shark back in the water while its still alive, leaving it to die of blood loss or to be eaten by other sharks.) Why do we also need sport fishing to deplete shark populations? Shark meat is nearly inedible due to mercury levels, so eating it is pretty much out of the question now. So the murder of these amazing creatures is unjust.

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