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Shark Fin Legislation — Long Overdue Huffington Post.com By Jupp Baron Kerckerinck zur Borg Shark fin soup was initially served in China as a symbol of great wealth; shark fins were rarely available and so the soup was a luxury dish. Development of modern fishing methods such as long-lining increased the bycatch (accidental catch) of [...]
Animal (and Shark) Rights Arrive in Asia Forbes.com By Tim Ferguson It’s a truism that as wealth grows out of the industrialization process, environmental conditions begin to improve. The consciousness usually has to rise well ahead of the results—see China today, for example, where pollution is horrible in many places but the country and its [...]
The Business of Sharks CBS Local.com MIAMI (CBS4) Call it man’s inhumanity to sharks, or a man’s effort to make a living. Either way, the brutality of finning sharks is hard to watch. In videos obtained by Greenpeace, violent struggles with the oceans top predator are recorded. In one particular video, the fight is lost by [...]
Radiation from Fukushima detected 400 miles off Japanese coast MSN.com By BRIAN SKOLOFF, MALCOLM RITTER SALT LAKE CITY — Radioactive contamination from the Fukushima power plant disaster has been detected as far as almost 400 miles off Japan in the Pacific Ocean, with water showing readings of up to 1,000 times more than prior levels, [...]
New York May Ban Shark Fin Sales, Following Other States New York Times.com By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL Large glass bottles of desiccated shark fins grace the upper shelves of nearly every convenience store and grocery in Chinatown, bearing price tags — from $100 to more than $500 per pound — that reflect the market value of [...]
Can We Eat Our Fish and Protect Them Too? Forbes.com By Terry Waghorn It’s hard to not feel guilty about eating seafood these days as reports of overfishing and collapsed fisheries abound. Led by a group of Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum, however, an exciting solution is beginning to emerge, the brainchild [...]
Florida: It’s Time to Do More to Protect Sharks Huffington Post By Adrian Grenier and Andrew Sharpless Floridians depend on the ocean. And we understand. It’s in your blood. Florida’s waters weave themselves into the daily life of most who call this state home and with so much to offer, it’s easy to understand why. [...]
Trip to 7-Eleven leads Bangkok police to tiger butchers The Guardian UK By Kate Hodal It isn’t every day that a man with bloody hands emerges from a convenience store and returns home to continue chopping up tigers, zebras and wild buffalo in an underground slaughterhouse. So Thai police officers on a routine street patrol [...]
Shark Savers, Michael Skoletsky responding: Michael Skoletsky, Shark Savers wrote: We object to the interpretation in this article (Experts Swim Against Shark Fin Debate) that Professor Oakley of Shark Savers Malaysia agrees with Dr. Giam’s and Mr. Jenkins that sharks are not in urgent need of greater protection or that the shark fin trade is [...]
Obama campaigns at restaurant illegally serving shark fin soup SFGate.com By Carla Marinucci President Obama, who signed the Shark Conservation Act into law last month, apparently didn’t check out the menu before he made a surprise visit Thursday to a restaurant in San Francisco’s Chinatown that is among a handful still serving shark fin soup, [...]
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