While in Bankok in the sixties I ate sharkfin soup, fried sea turtle, various pate's of porpoise and other sea creatures many times. It was cheap eating at the time. Those people didn't think a thing of it then and probably don't now. It's called suvival. I doubt that the fishermen got much for their catch in those days and I would suspect that the entire shark, turtle , dolphin, etc. was comsumed. The problem now is that people in modern times are dumb enough to pay lots of bucks for bragging rights that they have paid many hundreds of dollars for a bowl of hot water with a half ounce of sharkfin and some seasonings. I have a friend who is like that. He never can get over telling people about this sort of thing he has done in the past. Sort of like the $2000 bottle of wine that people brag about comsuming. It's an ego trip that I will never understand. I would think that a person would brag if they got the soup or wine for a dollar instead. Of course, I am a cheapskate with very low self esteem and no ego.
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No one is faulting those that fish to survive in poor nations. But it has to come down to realizing that fishing practices that destroy all that it comes into contact with just has to end. There are people in this world that wish to pay alot to kill or eat endangered species of mammals too. But the general public shun these practices. In the ocean, the general public is unaware that shrimping wastes 85% of the food it catches due to the way they dredge the bottom for a few of those shrimp. Long line fishing is meant to catch swordfish and tuna. But it doesn't descriminate and they catch everything from sharks, to dolphin, to sea turtles. Most that are caught on the line drown. So when do we stop looking the other way and start changing things for the better? It has to start somewhere, and informing those that consume and influence those poor nations to create jobs with other means like tourism, etc. It has to begin somewhere.
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