Fred R.
Contributor
Shark on restaurant menus is a huge problem worldwide. The biology of sharks does not allow for a sustainable fishery, they reproduce too slowly for a voracious species like humans to target in the long view.
Pier 1 is advertising lemon shark. Lemon shark is not common, nor numerous. In the area of the Bahamas where Pier 1 is located, lemon shark has come under major attack cutting at its reproduction. The nursery area for many of the AtlanticÃÔ lemon sharks is being turned into condos and golf courses. The once fertile mangroves where Dr. Sam Gruber did groundbreaking research on the reproductive biology of lemon sharks has been turned into a silted out underwater desert.
Meldiver has too much love and respect for the Bahama shark species to wish to see them wiped out, and has been witness to the devastation that just one fisherman filling orders for just one restaurant can do.
In 2004 she witnessed one fisherman in a small, 14 foot boat tie up near Shark Junction, a famous shark feeding and viewing site, and watched as over the course of eight days every single resident shark at that site disappeared. The sharks were purchased by a local restaurant for $2 per pound and served to their patrons fried in strips.
Without some support and action, the same will happen on a much wider scale. The lemon shark species may disappear from Bahamian waters if they are targeted either end of their life cycle, losing their reproductive and nursery grounds as well as losing the adult breeding population.
And to the trolls who always comment on how good things taste, I have it on very good authority that you would taste good with a little salt and catsup, but barbecued, better than ANY other meat!
Pier 1 is advertising lemon shark. Lemon shark is not common, nor numerous. In the area of the Bahamas where Pier 1 is located, lemon shark has come under major attack cutting at its reproduction. The nursery area for many of the AtlanticÃÔ lemon sharks is being turned into condos and golf courses. The once fertile mangroves where Dr. Sam Gruber did groundbreaking research on the reproductive biology of lemon sharks has been turned into a silted out underwater desert.
Meldiver has too much love and respect for the Bahama shark species to wish to see them wiped out, and has been witness to the devastation that just one fisherman filling orders for just one restaurant can do.
In 2004 she witnessed one fisherman in a small, 14 foot boat tie up near Shark Junction, a famous shark feeding and viewing site, and watched as over the course of eight days every single resident shark at that site disappeared. The sharks were purchased by a local restaurant for $2 per pound and served to their patrons fried in strips.
Without some support and action, the same will happen on a much wider scale. The lemon shark species may disappear from Bahamian waters if they are targeted either end of their life cycle, losing their reproductive and nursery grounds as well as losing the adult breeding population.
And to the trolls who always comment on how good things taste, I have it on very good authority that you would taste good with a little salt and catsup, but barbecued, better than ANY other meat!
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s so I really think this is the best direction for us to head. Thank you in advance for ignoring me.
