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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, [...]
The Dregs of Dictatorship By MOHAMED NASHEED DICTATORSHIPS don’t always die when the dictator leaves office. The wave of revolutions that toppled autocrats in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen last year was certainly cause for hope. But the people of those countries should be aware that, long after the revolutions, powerful networks of regime loyalists [...]
Introducing Derrick the Deathfin, PS3′s first underwater papercraft action game Joystiq.com By JC Fletcher Derrick the Deathfin is an angsty teenage shark who suffers tragedy when his parents are canned as shark fin soup. In response, Derrick begins a worldwide campaign of revenge, destroying every manmade structure he can find. Because he’s a shark, he [...]
Shark’s journey a first for science UT San Diego.com Written by Mike Lee An electronic ID tag from a rare shark spotted off the county’s coast in June has popped to the surface near Hawaii, providing local marine researchers with an unprecedented look into the long-distance movements of the second-largest known fish. Basking sharks have [...]
Whale Shark In Pakistan Raises More Questions Than Answers Huffington Post.com By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Video of a dead whale shark being pulled from the sea off of Pakistan raises more questions about the school-bus-size fish’s demise than it answers, scientists say. Pakistani newspaper The Express Tribune posted video on Tuesday (Feb. 7) [...]
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