Reality Show Films Slaughter of Record Breaking Mako Shark
In California, one of the more progressive states when it comes to protecting its natural resources, doesn’t allow shark finning, but you can still hunt and kill sharks.
A group of fishermen hooked a giant, 1,323 pound mako shark off the coast of Huntington Beach on Monday, and reality TV, thanks to the Outdoor Channel hunting show Jim Shockey’s The Professionals, will bring the entire bloody escapade into your home, reports the LA Times. The record breaking shark kill made headlines, possibly because this may well be the largest mako shark ever caught, and among the top 0.5% of all fish on record.
Sharks are being over-fished almost to the point of extinction by the Japanese, but also other nations, eager to satisfy the Japanese lust for shark fin soup.
One shark conservationist says the giant fish should have been released instead of killed. “These kind of reality shows are not reality. The reality is we’re overfishing sharks,” he said. But the fishermen defend their catch, saying state law allows individuals to catch up to two mako per day. “We only kept one mako for a total of 18 passengers out there three days,” says the captain of the fishing trip. “It’s not hurting the population,” adds another fisherman, who tells KTLA what it took to capture the beast: more than two hours and a quarter-mile of line.
There are better ways to enjoy sharks, such as swimming with them, as opposed to murdering them, and it’s far more profitable.
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I’m in agreement apart from the ‘swimming with them’ bit – I’ll watch from the beach bar with a cold beer if you don’t mind
Why is it always about killing? No need. Sad story.
Rachel, it is the one thing that humans do very well. We have not only perfected the art of killing, we have invented many different way of doing it which other creatures would never conceive of or be capable of doing.
I agree Rowdy. Man’s lust for blood has no end it seems.
How disturbing this is. Why didn’t they just weigh and measure it, take lots of pictures, and release it back into the sea?