For a negative note, I just read this article in the Washington Post that delegates to the International Convention on Trade and Endangered Species FAILED to limit quotas on sharks. This is a particularly disgusting practice because people will catch the sharks, cut the fins off, and then leave the shark in the water to die. They sell the fins to Asia where they are probably used as some type of ancient Viagra.
This is just unacceptable. The U.S. voted the right way on this one to preserve the sharks.
As much as flats fisherman don't like sharks trying to kill our bonefish, permit, or tarpon on the flats, sharks are an important part of the ecosystem and must be protected. In a weird way, I look at sharks like one of us. They are hunting the fish too and I respect them.
Write your Congressman or Senator and tell them your disgusted, too. Maybe we should stop trading with countries who participate in this, or at least file something with the WTO.
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