#stopsharkculling

[whitesharkvideo]

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"By the time Fisheries showed up two hours later, the baby whale was dead" - quote from news video I remember an old lady shuffling past the shark net protest at Manly Beach when I was in New South Wales filming Great White Lies. She declared with authority, "I have no problem with the nets!" and continued on her way. I'm guessing she had no true understanding of the nets or the cost to marine life...and has no intention of ever learning. But I would like to take her out on a boat and have her watch a mother whale watch its baby drown even as the mother fights for its own life. Now, tell me again, how you have no problem with it. In fact, turn and tell the camera once every ten minutes for the next several hours of torment, suffering, and fight for life how you have no problem with it. Ignorance is bliss, but if you willfully choose ignorance, you are passively participating in murder. Who are the #monsters?#wsv #whitesharkvideo #stopsharkculling #nosharkcull And this is why we Sharkservation White Shark Video and Blackgill Media - Dan Abbott media are filming 'Monsters'.

[whitesharkvideo]

Looks like a nice way to go out. -------- #wsv #whitesharkvideo #shark #whiteshark #greatwhiteshark #whitesharkcafe #sharkminutes #sharkinterns #sharkconservation #skylerthomas #savethesharks #stopculling #stopsharkculling #nosharkcull #sharkculling #culling #coexistence #ocearchlies #monsters

[sharkgeeks-blog]

📸; unknown #stopsharkfinning #stopsharkfinsoup #stopsharkculling #sharklove #loveouroceans #shark #nofinsoup

[russiangeisha]

It's #sharkweek yo! It's time to see the beauty of these creatures and raise awareness. #saveoursharks #stopsharkfinning #stopsharkculling #stopsharkfinsoup

[alugioyo]

Sneaky guy. Miss you already. I highly recommend this experience. @oneoceandiving @juansharks #goprooftheday #gopro #hero4 #oahu #haliewa #nocage #northshore #nottacobellreef #stopsharkculling #stopsharkfinsoup #hawaii #knektusa

[alugioyo]

One of the best experiences of my life! Thank you @juansharks @oneoceandiving #sandbarsharks #saveroursharks #gopro #haliewa #stopsharkculling #puppies #stopsharkfinsoup #oahu #northshore #knektusa #hero4 #hero3 (at Haliewa Boat Harbor)

[kathinimyers-blog]

Like with wolves and other large predators, our image of sharks is deformed by irrational fear and hate. The fear is rooted on rumour—scattered news that get amplified and deformed as they are retold again and again. These obscure stories make us anthropomorphize these animals. We give those human qualities and emotions—like cruelty and anger—giving them motive and turning them into thinking monsters akin to psychopaths. And once they are like us, we can hate them.

But the fact is that the only thing sharks are trying to do is survive, contributing to the trophic pyramid that is the base and covenant of all life on Earth. Without them, that pyramid would collapse. Instead of hating and hunting them—based on the stupid thought that this our Earth—what we should do is get out of their way.

Threats to sharks start with preconceived inaccurate ideas such as they are only malicious man eating machines.  Sadly, fear keeps most people from understanding them, seeing them for how important they really are, or desiring to conserve them. Sharks are a vital part of our eco-system.  They function as the white blood cells of the ocean, picking off the dead, dying, and sick.  Sharks keep the populations below them and their numbers in a delicate balance.  

Sharks are at the top of the food chain, their numbers already low, they are slow to reproduce and so they are not resilient to fishing pressures. 

Over one million sharks are killed every year, mostly due to the demand for shark-fin-soup.  Shark fin soup is only a status symbol and the fin its self does nothing to add flavor or texture to the soup.  Fining is a horrible practice that involves hacking the fins off often live animals and throwing them back overboard to slowly die, unable to swim.  Only 5% of the animal is used, it's a terrible waste and is having a devastating impact.   Other threats to sharks include: by-catch in fishing; mostly long lines, gill nets, drift nets, ghost nets.  Trophy or sport fishing, souvenirs, habitat destruction, & in the case of large harmless species such as whale sharks: boating impacts.