WHITE SHARK KILLED

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Tsutsuma

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THIS THE WORDS FROM THE PERSON THAT TOOK THE PICTURES - 28 January 2013 =

If yesterday was not sad enough today had me in tears, Today the locals caught a juvinile female Great white, its one of the most horrific things I have seen, I felt Helpless as I watched them hack her fins off before my eyes. Please share this message and help me get ride of this feeling of helplessness and help in the battle to save our sharks!!
 

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Tsutsuma

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THIS THE WORDS FROM THE PERSON THAT TOOK THE PICTURES - 28 January 2013 = If yesterday was not sad enough today had me in tears, Today the locals caught a juvinile female Great white, its one of the most horrific things I have seen, I felt Helpless as I watched them hack her fins off before my eyes. Please share this message and help me get ride of this feeling of helplessness and help in the battle to save our sharks!!
 

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Tsutsuma

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THIS THE WORDS FROM THE PERSON THAT TOOK THE PICTURES - 28 January 2013 = If yesterday was not sad enough today had me in tears, Today the locals caught a juvinile female Great white, its one of the most horrific things I have seen, I felt Helpless as I watched them hack her fins off before my eyes. Please share this message and help me get ride of this feeling of helplessness and help in the battle to save our sharks!!
 

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THIS THE WORDS FROM THE PERSON THAT TOOK THE PICTURES - 28 January 2013 = If yesterday was not sad enough today had me in tears, Today the locals caught a juvinile female Great white, its one of the most horrific things I have seen, I felt Helpless as I watched them hack her fins off before my eyes. Please share this message and help me get ride of this feeling of helplessness and help in the battle to save our sharks!!
 

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Chillax

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Absolutely shocking.  I would like to hack their limbs of!! Its the same thing if yo think about it. 
 
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PatrickC

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the ____ (fill in the blank) in the wetsuit doesn't look like your average subsistence fishermen.....


Very sad indeed.(t(do(wn)
 
Marthin

Marthin

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horrible....

Yet these people are doing it to feed a family....

Our KZN Shark'sboard has been killing them off for years now, just so little johnnie from Gauteng can come swim in durbs! There is truely NOTHING more they can learn from cutting open dead sharks.

Speak to people like Olivia Symcox (Previously Olivia Jones from ESA), about what can be done to remove the senseless nets in Natal. Surfers are having paddle outs etc for all the mammals and sharks killed in the nets off the KZN coast.
 
Marthin

Marthin

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yip in afgelee areas in mosambiek... skiet met n titel.

Ek se net ons maak die goed dood hier op ons voorstoep vir geen beter rede as jannie wat wil swem in natal...... so is biekie swak om dan die mense barbare te noem.
 
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Fin-S

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Marthin, whilst I agree on the shark net issue, I fail to understand why a subsistence fisherman would be finning.

Obviously to sell (I have not yet met an African with a taste for shark fin soup) - hence it is not subsistence.
With over 100,000 Chinese in Moz, it is not surprising that their tastes are being supported.
 
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Pylstert

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Geez guys, get real this is fishing, we all kill bags of fish just to put bait on your hook. Why are these people now suddenly a bunch of savages etc for killing a shark?
 
Marthin

Marthin

Sealiner
They are definately selling, perhaps me saying "to feed their family" is misinterpreted....

The guy catching snoek on a boat out of cape town gets paid for it, but is also doing it to "feed his family".

I just don't know about many other options up there. Someone wants a roof over their head, a bed for their child and food on the table.

All i'm saying it's a better reason than what we have for the nets.
 
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Schwarzenegger

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Another victim of the Eastern (mainly Chinese) market's demand for illegal wildlife products like perlemoen, Rhino horn, elephant ivory, tiger products etc. etc..... The trade in shark fins is absolutely astronomical - according to SA statistics, between 50-100 tons of fins were exported between 2006 and 2010. The mind boggles if you think how many sharks it took to harvest 100 tons of fins!

Also, this stuff fetches up to $1,000/kg on the eastern markets, so it is a money-driven evil that will probably not be stopped easily. And governments are also benefiting from the trade in fins, so they won't be too keen to address the problem.

Here is a very interesting article regarding this topic, with some really scary facts:
http://www.bdlive.co.za/national/science/2012/10/01/shark-populations-plummeting-from-growing-global-trade-in-fins
 
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Serra Moz

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Very sad indeed, I often wonder how many sharks gets killed yearly in nets along the KZN coast? Can the Sharks Board supply accurate/honest figures to this?
 
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AntV

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Pylstert wrote:
Geez guys, get real this is fishing, we all kill bags of fish just to put bait on your hook. Why are these people now suddenly a bunch of savages etc for killing a shark?
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last time I checked I didn't kill protected species for bait.... yes we all kill fish for either bait or food but this is a group of individuals cutting of fins for sale , was the animal dead when that happened , probaly not. So please don't group me in with these people but saying we are all fisherman. Images like that sicken me
 
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Pylstert

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AntV wrote:
Pylstert wrote:
Geez guys, get real this is fishing, we all kill bags of fish just to put bait on your hook. Why are these people now suddenly a bunch of savages etc for killing a shark?
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last time I checked I didn't kill protected species for bait.... yes we all kill fish for either bait or food but this is a group of individuals cutting of fins for sale , was the animal dead when that happened , probaly not. So please don't group me in with these people but saying we are all fisherman. Images like that sicken me
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But people actively practice swimbaiting on sealine - e.g. impaling sharks with large hooks then swimming them out alive to catch other sharks, I don't see anyone throwing there toys about that,  its also not a protected species in Mozambique.
 
Marthin

Marthin

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http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.586010368080608.150004.100000149497413&type=1

We actively catch and kill them here on drum lines off the KZN coast.

Exactly the same thing, except i think the Mozambique chap has a reason at least, perhaps not the greatest reason but a reason none the less.
 
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