Shark Finning and Long Lining...stop it...

Here's the youtube page for the artist of the song: http://www.youtube.com/user/SongForTheOcean
PLEASE READ: NO RACIST COMMENTS, I've been getting a few racist comments, things like "Everyone in the Asian community, whether its Japan or China should be severely punished for even considering eating shark fin soup. Even if it is considered to be some kind of remedy against cancer, TRY EATING VEGETABLES AND FRUITS ON A DAILY BASIS. SAME EFFECT!!!
Even if it is considered to be a sign of great wealth, YOUR MINDS ARE POOR BECAUSE YOU DO NOT SEE THAT YOU ENDANGER YOURSELF AND EVERYONE AROUND YOU. ALL YOUR GODS SHALL PUNISH YOU NOW AND FOREVER!!" PLEASE! NONE OF THAT!!!
Also, I've been getting a lot of comments asked for the song, the sight is http://www.theoceanproject.org/resources/audio.php and the song is "Song for the Ocean" by Kristin Hoffmann, its not on iTunes so you can only get it on the site.

a video using footage from SHARKWATER to give information about longlining, sharkfinning, and sharks in general. Warning: graphic animal cruelty content.
Sorry for the spelling and grammer errors, its my first video and I didn't check it.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• shark
• sharks
• sharkwater
• finning
• fishing
• longlines
• sea
• turtles
• seals
• whales

[STFU123Fuck]

1.Chinese eats not kills 2. Shark Fin soup is a rich man thing 3. the shark fin soup you see on th street is fake because they are cheap 4. Not only Chinese eats 5.no shark: the ocean is safe and for surfers too 6. Americans eat karviar, what the different?? 7.Does Shark contributes to all of you????

[Smartass11111]

@STFU123Fuck 1. That makes no sense 2. It is a delicacy, that doesn't mean only rich people can afford it. It just means its part of their culture. 3. It isn't fake on the street, if you think it is you're just ignorant. 4. I never said only chinese people eat it. 5. No shark: the ocean is dead. Take a 5th grade science class, even they know everything is interconnected. Plus, only 5 people die WORLDWIDE from shark attacks, vending machines kill more people. Wanna get rid of those too?

[Smartass11111]

@STFU123Fuck 6. It's Caviar, learn to spell, which is sturgeon. Do some research, only some sturgeon are endangered, the species that aren't are the species used for Caviar. 7. Sharks are a vital important to the oceans as the top predator. All life on this planet relies on the oceans. If sharks go extinct, the whole oceans, and by extension, the world will be put off balance as the world we knowhas basically been built around the existence of sharks for the past 400 million years so yes it does

[Smartass11111]

@STFU123Fuck 8. learn to type and spell correctly if you want to get a point across, and maybe get a little bit of a thing called an education.

9. next time watch the video and do research before you comment on things you know absolutely nothing about

[thewatchman2009]

Any racist comment just take attention away from the issue here. The extent of the decline in shark numbers is obscene and will only change If countries like China, an costa rica allow limits to certain species of sharks and numbers. An independent organisation must be introduced soon as I feel the goverment/s have done to little to late. Few people understand that many sharks require 20+ years to be sexually mature enough to produce other sharks. How many will be left in another 20?

[Smartass11111]

@thewatchman2009 i completely agree about an independent organization. The only organization I know have that has attempted to address this issue is Sea Shepherd, however I don't think it is their focus. 

[sublimepuravidamae]

this is so fucked up



[squalus18]

@Erinsprideseafood What you do though does not fall under the category of "finning." You are utilizing an entire fish and using the meat itself for food in a sustainable fashion. And that is where both the public, scientific community, and you need to do a better job of communicating. But I think that when hopefully shark finning does become banned, and shark bycatch issues are reduced significantly; People only have the dogfish to look at, and they will understand the management implications.

[Erinsprideseafood]

@squalus18 Exactly why you need to seperate law abiding commercial fishermen from Pirates. 99% of you tube vids throw all fishermen under the same bus. The mostly misinformed enviros are horrified to watch me unload a ton of spiny dogfish from my boat and think I am personally wiping out the shark population. We are not putting a dent in the dogfish population nor are we wiping out an endangered species...yet we are treated as greedy criminals.

[squalus18]

@Erinsprideseafood You bring up some good points regarding S. acanthias and overpopulation of this particular species. However, you are only talking about one species under regulation by one country and is not a great example for your defense. You need to realize that the real issues are much larger. Fisherman in Costa Rica or China will take any species; silky's, dusky's, hammerheads, and they do not care. You are not the only fisherman out there and not everyone fishes the way we do here.

[JRwatson2000]

just wrong

[BrillianttAdventure]

this made me cry. though i would've cried more if it were people... but still.

[runforrestrun13]

okay... i really wanna be a marine biologist who studies sharks and i want to be able to do that when i get older. and i so want to do that. jjust because your a girl doesnt mean you cant really like sharks:)

[Erinsprideseafood]

Disclaimer: I am against illegal fishing(poaching) and Im against the wasteful act of illegal shark finning. That being said illegal shark finning does not occur in the United States. The US fisherman is the most highly regulated in the world and should not be thrown under the bus by being included with the shit that is shown in these videos.

[Erinsprideseafood]

@Erinsprideseafood These dogfish(sharks) are fully utilized as shark fin soup in china, scherllocken in Germany and fish and chips in the UK. The dogfish are sustainably caught with little bycatch and strictly regulated by the NMFS yet you look to hurt law abiding fishermen by banning soup? Many of the photos being spread around of 100s of shark fins are actually dogfish fins. These photos are used to shock the public. You people need to educate yourselves and not buy into the lies.

[Erinsprideseafood]

@thewatchman2009 Have you ever heard of a spiny dogfish? The spiny dogfish were over protected ten years ago and since then have become so abundant as to destroy the rebuilding of many other commercially viable species such as cod, haddock, lobster and a myriad of other species. Today if you put out 250 hooks for cod you catch 250 spiny dogfish. Finally the NMFS raised the limit to 3000lbs of dogfish a day which can be caught within two hours.