ERIC.K
Contributor
I'm an experienced diver, and we have had in our wallets for the last three or four years the Monterey Bay Aquarium seafood guide in our wallets and for the most part have decided to go seafoodless thinking it was better for the environment, we certainly have gotten a fair amount of grief and have been the victims of "that leaves more shrimp for me" remarks.
Over the last two years we have slowly been building our dream bar next to our inground pool and hot tub and have made the bar complete with showcases to display vintage dive gear and various saltwater fishing reals. I must say we have accomplished our mission to fashion our entertainment area to look just like an old Key West dive shop. My problem is as I was tooling around on Ebay looking for some shark teeth I found several shark jaws for sale........I bought one, and when it arrived I took it out of the box and then it dawned on me, I became part of the problem, this problem with sharks nearly on the brink of extinction. I simply thought it would be cool mounted on the wall, and it does but at what price. After reading the fine print better from the Ebayer I bought it from, it indicated that the shark was caught in the Pacific, somewhere near the phillipines or Figi or one of those islands for food but even shark fin soup is food. it's just a story, not an admission of guilt, I just need to be more careful. A sea turtle shell would be cool on the same wall, but certainly immoral and unethical as well as illegal here in the states. If enough folks wanted to hang a shark jaw on their wall then we would see more sharks being killed for that. I would like to believe that the jaw I have came from some native tahitian that was feeding his family but I'm not thinking thats truely what happened. What do you think?
Over the last two years we have slowly been building our dream bar next to our inground pool and hot tub and have made the bar complete with showcases to display vintage dive gear and various saltwater fishing reals. I must say we have accomplished our mission to fashion our entertainment area to look just like an old Key West dive shop. My problem is as I was tooling around on Ebay looking for some shark teeth I found several shark jaws for sale........I bought one, and when it arrived I took it out of the box and then it dawned on me, I became part of the problem, this problem with sharks nearly on the brink of extinction. I simply thought it would be cool mounted on the wall, and it does but at what price. After reading the fine print better from the Ebayer I bought it from, it indicated that the shark was caught in the Pacific, somewhere near the phillipines or Figi or one of those islands for food but even shark fin soup is food. it's just a story, not an admission of guilt, I just need to be more careful. A sea turtle shell would be cool on the same wall, but certainly immoral and unethical as well as illegal here in the states. If enough folks wanted to hang a shark jaw on their wall then we would see more sharks being killed for that. I would like to believe that the jaw I have came from some native tahitian that was feeding his family but I'm not thinking thats truely what happened. What do you think?
