White Tip Reef Shark feeding in captivity (For Sale)

[tdawg32197]

how much do you want for the shark

[mikkars250]

@tdawg32197 Still Sold. Thanks.

[thewhiterockwizard]

hello!!!!!!!!!!!!! no no no sharks r meant to be in the wild not captured! what about its shiver huh????????

[Krs2022]

How much for the shark do u have anymore

[mikkars250]

@Krs2022 Sorry mate, sold ages ago.

[Krs2022]

And for all u fuckin fags if someone wants a shark who'd the hell ate u to question him about his reason. Shut the hell up and mind your on damn business. State laws say it's ok so if it's ok for the then u should keep your dick beater shut.

[kwarta2323]

i am confused as to why you have decided to keep a shark captive (for starters), and why you have decided to keep it captive (and for sale) in a small, noisy, shallow concrete tank? Secondly, "coral collecting"? excuse my ignorance here I am not aware of what your reasons behind undertaking either of these activities but on the surface here, what you are doing is completely unnecessary... You hand caught this shark, great, so why not take a photo and release it? Why are you collecting coral?

[mikkars250]

@kwarta2323 I don't get paid for photos.

[seasave1]

whitetip reef shark grow to a maximum length of just under 7 feet, Vulnerable to Extinction (IUCN 2007)

[mikkars250]

@seasave1 Excuse me sir. Population Status: Lower Risk of becoming vulnerable (IUCN 2007).

Good thing Australia has the best fisheries management in the world. White tip reef sharks are by far the most common shark I encounter most on the reef. Out of the hundreds I have seen, I have not seen any reaching even 6 foot in length. A fully mature White Tip of around 5-5.5ft is a large specimen. It is also much better taking the juviniles than breeding adults.

[seasave1]

@mikkars250 5-5.5ft? They have been found up to 6.9 feet. in a 72 X 24 glass cages, Maybe. Feed goldfish, put in tap water, I guess that's why they don't get 7 feet in captivity,(living up to 25yrs.) Australia's creatures won't live a year by the time it gets to the US, Responsibility, accountability and morals have sailed out to sea. Populations of whitetip reef sharks have been reduced by 80%. This is another reson sharks are becoming extinct.

[mikkars250]

@seasave1 Yes they may have been found up to 6.9ft (you mean 6'11"?) these are anomolies.

Besides ones I have seen in public aquariums, the only captive white tip I have seen is the one in the video. An ex-business partner kept one for 5 years and it was healthy and 5ft in length at approx 5.5 years of age (5 years 6 months).

All my examples I quoted were seen in the wild. As quoted by the experts, they are low risk of vulnrability, NOT IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION. cont.

[seasave1]

@mikkars250 Sharks numbers are down all over the world. Low risk, no Vulnerable with decreasing populations NOT IN DANGER OF EXTINCTION? Yet! kudos to those who can keep them alive. most can not and Pet Stores will sell to anybody. As mentioned most don't live a year. 5 Years? hum they live 25 years. Conservation and management action are urgently required for this species.

[mikkars250]

@mikkars250 cont....

They are not a commercial food fish and I would guess the highest human cause of mortality in this species would be by line fishermen, either killing them as a pest or them dying on release.... very few are kept for food.

In 20 years this is the only white tip we have collected. There is one other collector and they specialise in collecting large fish and sharks for public aquariums, that collect these in Australia. There are only a handfull taken. cont......

[mikkars250]

@seasave1 cont.....

every year.

Please don't get emotional about this and quot false information.

I applaud your passion for conservation but please use your energy directing it to species that are vulnrable or in danger.

Australia has the least exploited fishery in the world and Queensland has the least exploited fishery in Australia. I am passionate about sharks and deal with them on a first hand basis in my day to day work life. They happen to be my favourite sea creature. cont.....

[seasave1]

@mikkars250 We end up with some Australia creatures. Fish, corals, and inverts, however pet stores chops coral up (for frags), We see beautiful corals come in on Monday, chopped on wednesday and dead by Friday. Fish (including sharks) dumped in tanks with chemicals and if it don't die on them it dies on the people. I like to take a more PRO active approach instead of waiting until some species are wiped out or close to it. No emotion, Much passion. Thanks.

[mikkars250]

@seasave1 I even had named this shark before it got back to the boat. After 2 months of holding this animal and not being able to sell it (I only caught it because we had 2 people asking for one and they didn't go through with it) we wanted to release it but the regulations say we can't and it would have to be euthanaised. We sold her for almost nothing and we won't be catching any more.

Do your research and keep up the good work. feel free to PM me if you are serious.

[seasave1]

@mikkars250 We understand methods, and regulations. Sometimes they STINK. We have ran into the same problems here. We are working on keeping them out of home aquariums for our state and hope it catches on. If you have more updated info I would love to improve our achives.

[mikkars250]

Sold at approx 4x the size of in vid :D