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onfloat:I couldn't believe it so I went looking.
http://espn.go.com/outdoors/general/s/g_fea_ESPN_Monster-Shark_041001.html
Agreed.........
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onfloat:I couldn't believe it so I went looking.
http://espn.go.com/outdoors/general/s/g_fea_ESPN_Monster-Shark_041001.html
That isn't a complete picture. The moose don't have continued pressure from hunting when their numbers are low keeping them from growing. Endangered shark populations don't have humans starving and dieing off in large numbers to reduce the pressures on the populations.mrjimboalaska:The earth cycles, animal populations change....example witnessed....
wolves eat all moose....then wolves starve...then moose population grows...then wolves eat moose.....
Recent evidence shows the two go hand in hand. Warming climates melt polar ice, reducing ocean salinity and changing the path of the gulf stream. This reduces the amount of warm air brought north resulting in lower temps. It takes a lot longer periods of low temps to replace the ice caps than it takes to melt them.mrjimboalaska:Of course the same goes for the "Global Warming" banter that we here of now, anyone remember 25 years ago when "Global Cooling" was the banter? Oh yes,
the temps were going to get so cold that vast number of food crops would not be able to be raised..
hecker-the-wrecker:Don't forget where that burger came from, or how someone had to cut down some trees so you had toilet paper, (i'm sure you don't use plastic) and just how many vegetables had to give their lives for your delicious salad??? (before i get flamed, please realize the following were examples of stuff that happens EVERY DAY right in front of us) it is a very cruel world...........................................................
drbill:Personally, I think there is a very substantial difference between killing for sport (= "pleasure"), since the fishers apparently didn't eat the sharks, and killing for food. This is in addition to the abuse of the shark that appears to have been part of the "sport."
I say this as a former hunter and spearo who has no problem with people killing animals for food. I just don't see how some can engage in it as a "sport."