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hahaha....overfishing of sharks for fins is a real problem.
Slow rate of procreation and the the time needed to grow are stacked against the sharks ability to survive the overfishing.
At current rate (tens of millions per year), the demise of sharks is no more if but when.
Also it is not possible to farm sharks unlike many of the other animals/fishes/shell fish..........
Slow rate of procreation and the the time needed to grow are stacked against the sharks ability to survive the overfishing.
At current rate (tens of millions per year), the demise of sharks is no more if but when.
Also it is not possible to farm sharks unlike many of the other animals/fishes/shell fish..........
The demise of sharks, if it happens, is a process of natural evolution anyway, just like dinosaurs. Nobody ate dinosaurs but still they were gone. Nothing to do with shark fishing as I've pointed out, the demand in global context is actually very small. Fisheries can become giant public listed companies by fishing cod, salmon, tuna etc., but not by fishing sharks. And you believe the stories of tens of millions per year? Go count the shark trawlers and shark fishermen manpower all around the world, multiply by 365 workdays, and see if you can arrive at figures in the millions. You think what shark fishing is about? Cast a net and catch them by tens and hundreds one shot?