Shark Attack - An Alarming Statistic ***dial-up warning: huge graphic***

[FourScore]

[Rex]

1. Dam we kill that many sharks an hour!?

WOW had no idea!

[upaloopa]

2. We've had shark attacks and sightings all along the Central Coast of CA for the last couple of

years.
Two surfers were killed at Surf in the last three years.

[Rex]

3. I didn't know sharks were so prevalent around the world.

Maybe there are just a LOT of sharks! Be careful out there!

[Lochloosa]

7. Picture of the annual migration of Spinner sharks off the coast of Florida

If humans were on sharks food list no one would go swimming....

Notice there are people in the water on the left.

[AtheistCrusader]

16. Yeah, they mostly don't care about us. And we probably taste weird.

Even bump and bite species will tend to spit people right out. It's not their fault we sorta look like their food. They aren't hunting us.

I've jumped in at molokini while a 8 foot reef shark glided by, about 20 feet below. It was beautiful, and showed no interest in us.

[upaloopa]

14. All public beaches along the Central Coast have shark warning signs.

Surf beach in Lompoc Vandenberg AFB was closed during the Christmas holidays due to shark sightings.

[el_bryanto]

8. That's 100,012,920 sharks a year. That's a lot of sharks.

Apparently used in Fish in Chips in Australia, which I am sort of OK with (assuming sharks aren't endangered there) - but Finning is pretty awful all the way around.

Bryant

[progressoid]

13. Yep - "100 Million Sharks Killed Each Year"

Shark fins drying in the sun in Kaohsiung before processing. 30 percent of the world’s shark species are threatened or near threatened with extinction.

Aggressive overfishing threatens to push some shark species to extinction, and a new study puts annual shark deaths at 100 million.

"Our analysis shows that about one in 15 sharks gets killed by fisheries every year," study leader Boris Worm, a professor of biology at Canada's Dalhousie University, said in a statement. "With an increasing demand for their fins, sharks are more vulnerable today than ever before."

Based on available data for shark deaths and estimates of unreported illegal catches, the researchers estimated that 100 million sharks were killed in 2000 and 97 million in 2010. But since scientists lack sufficient data on shark catches, they say the real number of annual shark deaths could possibly be between 63 million and 273 million.

...http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/100-million-sharks-killed-annually-130305.htm

[AtheistCrusader]

17. If you're not going to eat/use the whole animal....

That's deplorable.

[el_bryanto]

18. nods - that's why i'm sort of ok with fish and chips (as I assume they are using the bulk

of the animal) and really opposed to fining.

Bryant

[chervilant]

22. Have you seen the documentary

Sharkwater? I recommend that you consider the potential disaster of a sharkless ecosystem.

[el_bryanto]

23. To make it clear - i'm ok with eating a whole shark or any fish (or any mammal)

presuming it's not going to drive the animal into extinction - I don't know that the Australian Fish and Chips with shark are doing that; I think the finning is a much bigger problem.

But if the fish and chips is driving australian sharks into extinction than that needs to stop too.

Bryant

[Rex]

19. I agree completely.

That is why I deplore caged hunts, poachers, etc..

[Egalitarian Thug]

4. K&R But please edit the subject line with a warning about the huge graphic. n/t

[FourScore]

5. Just curious why that is necessay? Thanks. n/t

[xchrom]

6. lots of folks still use dial up and slower dsl. nt

[FourScore]

9. Oh! Okay. Thanks for letting me know.

My kids are always teasing me about how technologically ignorant I am.

[xchrom]

10. i try to inject warnings -- but i do forget. nt

[Egalitarian Thug]

11. Thank you. More people than we would expect here have very slow connections,

and clicking on a post with really big graphics effectively locks them up for a long time while it loads.

[FourScore]

12. Ugh. I hate it when that happens. Thank you so much for educating me! n/t

[uppityperson]

15. At this point it is rather like trees. There are more numbers but they are smaller and smaller to

get the same amount of mass.

Are sharks raised commercially on farms?

[blackspade]

20. K&R

[nashville_brook]

21. big k and r

[Boom Sound 416]

24. It's not just fin soup

It's pet food and the #9 at BK as well

[LeftyMom]

25. Sharks are slow to reach sexual maturity and have small litters, so their populations are at risk