DarkSpeedWorks wrote:
CPA_PFS wrote:
DarkSpeedWorks wrote:
That's a sad picture.
it is a massive and magnificent animal ... doesn't belong dead in some guy's pick-up truck
Disagree. They fed hundreds of people with it. That honors it's life. It wasn't wasted. Most of us, including me, eat magnificent animals daily. Beef, pork, chicken, lamb, fish.
If it was actually eaten, that's a big improvement. Many sport fish that are caught are wasted or just mounted on some guy's wall.
Another thing to consider is that there are fewer and fewer sharks, not sure about this species, but the oceans in general are in pretty serious trouble. Also, not sure how shark tastes (never had it), but given that they are a top of the food chain predator, it seems like their meat would not be the best to eat. Kind of like eating a cat or another meat eater. Have you tried shark?
Very, very few people pay to mount an actual fish there days. Typically a model is made from the dimensions of the fish.
Of course it was "actually eaten". Mako is fantastic and perfectly legal to catch. Nearly every food fish we buy is somewhere up the food chain including tuna and swordfish.
In this case, they are typically catch-release fisherman but the fish was nearly dead when they tried to release it. They didn't really want the publicity and wouldn't have had it if not for being low on fuel because they didn't want to hear all the flack about killing the shark despite it being perfectly legal.
Just remember that every can of tuna you buy in the store, or every time you order flounder or shrimp when out at dinner, that your meal is killing millions of pounds of "by-catch". By-catch is all the other non-target species of fish, crabs, and sea life that comes up in commercial nets used to catch a commercial species. Virtually all of this "by-catch" dies and is tossed back in the ocean. I'll gladly take one individual fish killed by a couple of sport fisherman vs. the tremendous waste of life that is most commercial fishing operations.
Pete Githens
Reading, PA