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I just posted this at the end of the previous thread on this topic but I think more people should see the link I have and being at the end of a thread, it may be missed.....
I was there ... we (another group than the one previously photographed) helped get her back in the water so that she could at least die in some comfort rather than cooking in the sun.
The fish wardens were devastated at what had happened. I think they felt as though they had failed her....
She was not badly enough scarred to have been caught in a net so tightly that they had to cut off her fins. As far as I could see, she got caught in a fisheman's net and being an opportunistic bastard, he saw the fast buck.
I am an Aussie living in Macau and I can assure you that her fins would have fetched a pretty penny and all for status - the Chinese don't cook fins from large sharks - just display them like trophies...
This was a sad day in my life. I looked into her eyes after she was back in the water and I will never forget them...
I have attached a public link on facebook of a folder of photos from this incident... Please feel free to send the link to whoever you want... this butchering has to stop.
It is time that we all made the effort to educate school kids in both fishing communities and in the Chinese communities around the world about these animals and what finning is really about They need to see it is primitive butchery that has to stop. Start with the children who can learn - perhaps they can teach their parents and we will eventually put a stop to finning..
Kerill Ezzy's Photos - The Tragedy of Finning - Death of a Whale Shark | Facebook
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I was there ... we (another group than the one previously photographed) helped get her back in the water so that she could at least die in some comfort rather than cooking in the sun.
The fish wardens were devastated at what had happened. I think they felt as though they had failed her....
She was not badly enough scarred to have been caught in a net so tightly that they had to cut off her fins. As far as I could see, she got caught in a fisheman's net and being an opportunistic bastard, he saw the fast buck.
I am an Aussie living in Macau and I can assure you that her fins would have fetched a pretty penny and all for status - the Chinese don't cook fins from large sharks - just display them like trophies...
This was a sad day in my life. I looked into her eyes after she was back in the water and I will never forget them...
I have attached a public link on facebook of a folder of photos from this incident... Please feel free to send the link to whoever you want... this butchering has to stop.
It is time that we all made the effort to educate school kids in both fishing communities and in the Chinese communities around the world about these animals and what finning is really about They need to see it is primitive butchery that has to stop. Start with the children who can learn - perhaps they can teach their parents and we will eventually put a stop to finning..
Kerill Ezzy's Photos - The Tragedy of Finning - Death of a Whale Shark | Facebook
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