bruce bowser wrote:
> On Saturday, May 15, 2021 at 10:16:53 AM UTC-4, Ophelia wrote:
>> On 15/05/2021 13:38, Gary wrote:
>>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>> A TV program on Nat Geo, To Catch a Smuggler showed some fins going
>>>> through customs illegally. They can go for $500 a pound.
>>>
>>> I saw that episode. I also previously watched a documentary showing
>>> asian fishermen harvesting those shark fins.
>>>
>>> They catch the sharks, cut off all the fins then toss the still alive
>>> shark back into the ocean. Without their fins, they can't swim or hunt
>>> so they sink to the bottom and just lay there until they die.
>>>
>> ======
>>
>> That is appalling(( I hope they suffer the same fate!!!
>
> Just put "shark bite" and australia into a search engine and look at the images.
>

I fished with a guy once. We went down to the boat dock and he
filleted all the fish. Tossed their skeletons back in the water and
they (very) slowly swam off. Just a head and some skeleton bones.

Something else probably ate them.