Do you ever wonder why there are not many sharks left in the world?

[Celt]

A Spanish-registered fishing vessel detained by the Naval Service off the southwest coast has been found to have more than a tonne of shark fins on board.

Up to 5,000 sharks are estimated to have been caught and stored on the vessel before it was boarded last week by an inspection team from the LÉ William Butler Yeats, 150 nautical miles south of Mizen Head Ireland

The court heard the vessel had 164,250kg of blue shark, 98kg of mako shark and 1,250kg of shark fins on board.

 

[Diver below 83]

If the USA really put their foot down, got most countries to join in to ban shark fishing. Just like whaling and endangered species already, that would help.

Not sure why there's no such political will on the west.

we can’t really force them to do anything. We’ve had absolutely zero impact on the Japanese and whaling, they are still doing it on a regular basis. China will not follow our lead when they continue to believe in nonsense medical benefits

 

[chillyinCanada]

A Spanish-registered fishing vessel detained by the Naval Service off the southwest coast has been found to have more than a tonne of shark fins on board.

Up to 5,000 sharks are estimated to have been caught and stored on the vessel before it was boarded last week by an inspection team from the LÉ William Butler Yeats, 150 nautical miles south of Mizen Head Ireland

The court heard the vessel had 164,250kg of blue shark, 98kg of mako shark and 1,250kg of shark fins on board.

 

[foob]

we can’t really force them to do anything. We’ve had absolutely zero impact on the Japanese and whaling, they are still doing it on a regular basis. China will not follow our lead when they continue to believe in nonsense medical benefits

Don't think shark fin is like tiger penis. The Chinese don't believe it has any medicinal value. Just tradition, price, and taste makes it a common expensive dish for expensive dinners.

 

[foob]

we can’t really force them to do anything. We’ve had absolutely zero impact on the Japanese and whaling, they are still doing it on a regular basis. China will not follow our lead when they continue to believe in nonsense medical benefits

A lot of whale populations have recovered since the ban. Japan is making an adverse impact but the effect is still net positive.

In the end, it's just a lack of political will. You think if the us president tied whaling to trade or something else the Japanese wouldn't bend?

Of course the lack of political will is because the electorate doesn't care enough.

Unless there huge education campaigns. Which require huge funds. Very difficult.

 

[Celt]

FAIR play to the Naval Service ... That was the view of fishermen in Castletownbere as the 70-metre Japanese tuna vessel, Minato Maru, was being escorted into west Cork by the LE Aisling for alleged breach of Ireland's 200-mile fishery limit.reports of 8.5 tonnes of fish on board the vessel - much, of it believed to be lucrative bluefin tuna - and enough catching gear to stretch from the Blaskets to the Aran islands. This longlining method involves setting lines for tens of miles, to which squid-baited hooks or "snoods" are attached at intervals. The detached gear is marked with radio beacons for later collection by the fishing vessels.

That a second Japanese ship had been detained yesterday by the LE Deirdre, and that up to 30 more were standing off the 200-mile limit, only heightened the reputation of the Land of the Rising Sun
They know Ireland can only put 3 patrol vessels to sea and there slaughtering the stocks. The international community are turning a blind eye to it.

 

[chillyinCanada]

FAIR play to the Naval Service ... That was the view of fishermen in Castletownbere as the 70-metre Japanese tuna vessel, Minato Maru, was being escorted into west Cork by the LE Aisling for alleged breach of Ireland's 200-mile fishery limit.reports of 8.5 tonnes of fish on board the vessel - much, of it believed to be lucrative bluefin tuna - and enough catching gear to stretch from the Blaskets to the Aran islands. This longlining method involves setting lines for tens of miles, to which squid-baited hooks or "snoods" are attached at intervals. The detached gear is marked with radio beacons for later collection by the fishing vessels.

That a second Japanese ship had been detained yesterday by the LE Deirdre, and that up to 30 more were standing off the 200-mile limit, only heightened the reputation of the Land of the Rising Sun
They know Ireland can only put 3 patrol vessels to sea and there slaughtering the stocks. The international community are turning a blind eye to it.

How has the international community been made aware?

Doesn't England have a big enough fleet to provide support?

 

[Celt]

How has the international community been made aware?

Doesn't England have a big enough fleet to provide support?

We don’t have the resources and England doesn’t have the jurisdiction, we need the international community to come together and place sanctions on Japan to stop them.

 

[Jcp2]

It absolutely is about magical powers.

“The popularity only increased as shark finsoup became part of Chinese traditional medicine. Shark fins are believed to prevent cancer, heart disease, and lower cholesterol. ... Shark fin soup is also used to help improve appetite and boost sexual potency.”

I stand corrected. You must be right. My experience and those of my family and friends must not count, being Chinese and all.

 

[tarponchik]

This video is as intense as the Sharkwater Extinction made by Rob Stewart. You don't have problem seeing almost 3-hour long Mission Impossible movie like Fall out, do you?

Over fishing is one thing. Taking just the fins (~ 5% of the body) and dumping the rest of the body still alive back to the sea, are like chopping the legs of lions and dumping them in savanna, let them rot. Such act is not sustainable. It will soon wiped the sharks out of the world. It is worse and wasteful.

I hoped you brought something new here, but I kept my eye on the problem ever since Myers et al paper was published in 2007, and this video adds nothing.