Indonesia shark skinners
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But hey shark fin consumption slows the ageing process and makes you strongrr for longrr
DownUnderwater Dan
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I bet ya the majority of Chinese population and younger generation find that statement ludicrous
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I am not aware of the culinary taste of the population in Spain but the graph I posted was about exports - implying that Sharks are fished and hunted in Spanish waters or from the Atlantic by fishing boats with the Spanish flag, but not necessarily consumed locally, perhaps processed more for exports. It may simply have to do with lack of local laws and regulations centered around marine conservation and overfishing, due to the presence of strong influential lobbies that seek profit over conservation …
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Back to the topic of Indonesia shark skinners, here is Andrew Miners interview. He is the owner of Misool Eco Resort, who built the resort from the shark finning camp site in Batbitim island, Misool, south Raja Ampat. He, with the help of the local klan, was able to make a no take zone around Misool (2200 sq.km ~ 5 boroughs of New York), that led to some positive results from this unsustainable shark skinning / finning business.
The no take zone, which was at the time (2016) were only < 5 existing in the world, had incredible biomass growth of 350% in 5 years (from 2006 to 2013).
The interview is > 45 minute long. You can skip the first 32 minutes, which talk about his background, how he ended up in Misool & started up the resort. Watch the last 13 minutes that talk about the benefits of the no take zone, working together with government of Palau & Maldives to show to the local people that the value of having the sharks alive is more that the dead ones.
Andrew said then that was a study in Maldives that a life shark was worth $33,500/yr. That same shark if it’s finned was worth $50-100 at sale price and the fisherman does not get that. They got a fraction of that sale price.
Andrew Miners is the explorer/visionary who led the team which built Misool EcoResort ("MER") -- one of the planet's extraordinary scuba diving destinations. This unabridged, 45-minute interview of Miners was conducted at Miners' office at MER in Misool, Raja Ampat, Indonesia.
MIners first visited the Raja Ampat area in 2002, when there was only one dive resort, in the northern area, and one dive liveaboard visiting the area only periodically. Miners began exploring the practically pristine area for dive sites, and discovered that the area south of Misool Island was uniquely beautiful. About the same time, he fell in love with his Swedish wife, Marit, an anthropologist, and the two began their marriage during the early construction of the Misool EcoResort, which took two years to build on a small island (Batbitim) that Miners had carefully chosen using specific criteria. It was not only stunningly beautiful, it was 5 to 10 minutes from some of the best diving on the planet.
In the interview, Miners explains MER's conservation initiatives, which include cooperating with local clans to create large "no take zones," which through scientific studies have been demonstrated to increase the biomass and health of the already spectacular coral reef ecosystems of Raja Ampat. Indeed, MER is one of the planet's very few diving operations in the midst of its own large (2200 square kilometers) no take zone. The concept can be conceived almost as a "Noah's Ark" device -- in which elements of ecosystems are preserved so that they can be disseminated to areas ravaged by overfishing and other habitat destruction. Thus, among many other things, the practices being refined at MER are highly relevant to global food security policy. All this will be of the utmost concern during the Great Oceanic Crisis of the mid-21st Century.
The no take zone, which was at the time (2016) were only < 5 existing in the world, had incredible biomass growth of 350% in 5 years (from 2006 to 2013).
The interview is > 45 minute long. You can skip the first 32 minutes, which talk about his background, how he ended up in Misool & started up the resort. Watch the last 13 minutes that talk about the benefits of the no take zone, working together with government of Palau & Maldives to show to the local people that the value of having the sharks alive is more that the dead ones.
Andrew said then that was a study in Maldives that a life shark was worth $33,500/yr. That same shark if it’s finned was worth $50-100 at sale price and the fisherman does not get that. They got a fraction of that sale price.
Andrew Miners is the explorer/visionary who led the team which built Misool EcoResort ("MER") -- one of the planet's extraordinary scuba diving destinations. This unabridged, 45-minute interview of Miners was conducted at Miners' office at MER in Misool, Raja Ampat, Indonesia.
MIners first visited the Raja Ampat area in 2002, when there was only one dive resort, in the northern area, and one dive liveaboard visiting the area only periodically. Miners began exploring the practically pristine area for dive sites, and discovered that the area south of Misool Island was uniquely beautiful. About the same time, he fell in love with his Swedish wife, Marit, an anthropologist, and the two began their marriage during the early construction of the Misool EcoResort, which took two years to build on a small island (Batbitim) that Miners had carefully chosen using specific criteria. It was not only stunningly beautiful, it was 5 to 10 minutes from some of the best diving on the planet.
In the interview, Miners explains MER's conservation initiatives, which include cooperating with local clans to create large "no take zones," which through scientific studies have been demonstrated to increase the biomass and health of the already spectacular coral reef ecosystems of Raja Ampat. Indeed, MER is one of the planet's very few diving operations in the midst of its own large (2200 square kilometers) no take zone. The concept can be conceived almost as a "Noah's Ark" device -- in which elements of ecosystems are preserved so that they can be disseminated to areas ravaged by overfishing and other habitat destruction. Thus, among many other things, the practices being refined at MER are highly relevant to global food security policy. All this will be of the utmost concern during the Great Oceanic Crisis of the mid-21st Century.
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Thank you for sharing
. I think it's important that Indonesians shouldn't be scapegoated or stereotyped as senseless killers of sharks, when in fact most have a great affinity & respect for sharks.
A common theme emerging, is "some/a lot" of people from Western or European countries, blindly believe that they are morally & ethically superior to other countries, therefore they can point the finger towards Indonesia or Asia, without the slightest clue that their own Western countries are the biggest traders/exporters of shark fins.
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