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There Is One Company that Could Put a Big Dent in the Shark Fin Trade Overnight
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<blockquote data-quote="worldwide" data-source="post: 1794249" data-attributes="member: 2193"><p>Glad you are happy on your high horse. Hope the UPSers in the air cargo division that get reduced hours or are displaced are as happy as you. Oh well, not your problem, you are happy and content in your ethical world. #sharklivesmatter</p><p></p><p>One other item...shark fins are sexy for the news and a great rallying point but the finning issue is very small in the overall scheme of things. Stay focused on the small things.</p><p></p><p>"But there is a much greater problem here — one that’s being largely ignored by a vocal community of internet activists, says marine biologist and shark expert David Shiffman. Shark finning, he told Motherboard, is a problem — but a small one. Compared with overfishing, the fin trade is tiny, though the media may not treat it that way.</p><p></p><p>“Finning is an increasingly small subset of the shark overfishing crisis that gets a disproportionate amount of attention,” Shiffman said. “A focus by many activists on how sharks are killed (finning), or what you can do what sharks' bodies after they are killed (the fin trade), instead of how many sharks are killed (overfishing), is not helping threatened species to recover.”</p><p></p><p>Shiffman’s got a point. The global trade in shark <em>meat</em> is very different from the trade in shark <em>fin</em>, and they often interact is complex and unexpected ways. For instance, as a <a href="http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4795e.pdf" target="_blank">recent report</a> by the United Nations Food and Agriculture organization pointed out, <strong>a push for legislation to ban shark finning and the trade in fins over the last decade has actually </strong><a href="http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=18717" target="_blank"><strong>resulted in a spike in the market</strong></a><strong> for shark meat.</strong> While the global trade in shark fins has slightly decreased since 2000, the trade in shark meat has increased by 42 percent."</p><p><a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/ups-finally-banned-shark-fins-what-now" target="_blank">http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/ups-finally-banned-shark-fins-what-now</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="worldwide, post: 1794249, member: 2193"] Glad you are happy on your high horse. Hope the UPSers in the air cargo division that get reduced hours or are displaced are as happy as you. Oh well, not your problem, you are happy and content in your ethical world. #sharklivesmatter One other item...shark fins are sexy for the news and a great rallying point but the finning issue is very small in the overall scheme of things. Stay focused on the small things. "But there is a much greater problem here — one that’s being largely ignored by a vocal community of internet activists, says marine biologist and shark expert David Shiffman. Shark finning, he told Motherboard, is a problem — but a small one. Compared with overfishing, the fin trade is tiny, though the media may not treat it that way. “Finning is an increasingly small subset of the shark overfishing crisis that gets a disproportionate amount of attention,” Shiffman said. “A focus by many activists on how sharks are killed (finning), or what you can do what sharks' bodies after they are killed (the fin trade), instead of how many sharks are killed (overfishing), is not helping threatened species to recover.” Shiffman’s got a point. The global trade in shark [I]meat[/I] is very different from the trade in shark [I]fin[/I], and they often interact is complex and unexpected ways. For instance, as a [URL='http://www.fao.org/3/a-i4795e.pdf']recent report[/URL] by the United Nations Food and Agriculture organization pointed out, [B]a push for legislation to ban shark finning and the trade in fins over the last decade has actually [/B][URL='http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=18717'][B]resulted in a spike in the market[/B][/URL][B] for shark meat.[/B] While the global trade in shark fins has slightly decreased since 2000, the trade in shark meat has increased by 42 percent." [URL]http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/read/ups-finally-banned-shark-fins-what-now[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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