This brutal practice, outlawed in U.S. waters (
see Shark Finning Faces Broader Sanctions) is not regulated on the high seas or in most nations» territorial waters.
In fact, one of my daughter's university roommates told me that she and her five friends stormed out of a Victoria Chinese restaurant when
they saw shark fin soup on the menu, and vowed never to return.
Not exact matches
Personally I love the way the
shark fins look and judging from what I've
seen online, I'm not in the minority.
The
shark fins have split opinion but having
seen what the cars could look like without the aero device, it definitely ruins the overall elegance of the design.
Will you be glad to
see the back of
shark fins and T - wings, or do you think they look awesome and want them to stay?
We look forward to
seeing how teams evolve their
shark fin designs over the years... oh no wait.
The Haas
shark fin design was one of the better ones in terms of the livery itself, and they've added driver name abbreviations (the three letters you
see on the timing tower).
New Formula 1 sporting boss Ross Brawn wants to
see the returning
shark fins and new T - Wings ironed out in the future.
It's a bit annoying the
shark fins are going in the bin for the 2018 season as they're the perfect spot for driver names and numbers, and it'd be nicer if the designs we've
seen so far were a bit bigger too.
I've
seen sting rays in migration beneath my board, and even the flash of a
shark's
fin as it chased after it's prey - thankfully swimming very fast away from me.
As he was giving me a tour of the campus, I
saw a giant
shark fin in a courtyard.
Cameras follow a dying
shark that's had all its
fins sawed off, as it falls to the ocean floor in immense pain.
It's one thing to be told that the «
shark fin» is composed of brittle rock that can chip off with the blow of a pickaxe; it's quite another to
see a hunk of rock zip past like cheap styrofoam as three men dangle at 20,000 feet, desperate for a solid foothold.
Susan Casey was in her living room when she first
saw the great white
sharks of the Farallon Islands, their dark
fins swirling around a small motorboat in a documentary.
Bring
fins that allow you to cut through strong currents and keep up with the fast - swimming
sharks that you are sure to
see there.
With some current bringing nutrients and life to the reef, our divers got to
see some action in the form of Big - Eye Jacks, Blue -
fin Trevally, Longface Emperors, a few Blacktip Reef
Sharks patrolling the reef and three Wobbegong
Sharks, including one swimming.
We
saw schools of: yellow
fin barracudas, jack fish, giant trevallies, spade fish, sweetlips fish, giant sweetlips, black and grey reef
sharks.
Visibility was amazing reaching 30 m / 90 ft.. We
saw: 5 different types of fusiliers, 5 black tip
sharks, 2 grey reef
sharks, 2 schools of big eye trevally, 5 giant sweat lips fish, bumphead parrotfish, school of yellow
fin barracudas, couple of dog tooth tunas, spanish mackerel, school of spade fish, school of sweetlips fish, 3 different schools of snapper and many more.
Schooling Red and Midnight Snappers, Big - Eye Jacks, Blue - lined and Spanish Flag Snappers, Giant, Blue -
fin and Orange - spotted Trevallys, Grey Reef
Sharks and more were
seen during the dive.
We
saw schools of fish: yellow
fin barracudas, jackfish, sweat lips fish, black tip
sharks, white tip
sharks and grey reef
sharks.
The current was medium at the beginning but after went to slack and some of the highlights
seen on the sandy bootom and around the incredible Soft Coral garden were: schools of Black
Fin Barracudas, Wobbeggong
Shark, Hacksbill Turtle, Napoleon Wrasse, Pygmy Seahorses and more.
Giant Trevally, schooling Gold - spotted and Blue -
fin Trevally, Whitetip and Grey Reef
Sharks, Wobbegong
Shark, Napoleon Wrasse, Cobia, Great Barracuda and a few other pelagics were
seen chasing fusiliers or just cruising alongside this seamount covered in hard and soft coral.
We also
saw: schools of yellow
fin fusiliers, silver fusiliers, five stripped snappers, grey reef
shark and oceanic manta!.
Visibility was amazing reaching 30 m / 90 ft.. We
saw: black tip
sharks, grey reef
sharks, huge school of big eye trevally, school of giant sweet lips fish, bump head parrotfish, school of yellow
fin barracudas, couple of dog tooth tunas, Spanish mackerel, school of spade fish, different types of snapper and countless number of surgeon fish.
After a while he got out for a drink and as he looked back to the water he
saw the
fin of a
shark swimming very close to me.
See how fast sharks can actually swim if they get hungry enough, and make sure you're out of the water when you see that f
See how fast
sharks can actually swim if they get hungry enough, and make sure you're out of the water when you
see that f
see that
fin!
It's great to
see the powers that be in China shifting on
shark fins.
He had not previously been aware of
shark finning, and
seeing the brutal practice in full color sparked his subsequent commitment to stop
shark finning in Costa Rica.
Seeing as how the
shark finning industry has gotten a deservedly bad rep over the last few years, it's no surprise that Ecuador refused to divulge its
shark catch until being forced to do so.
But a few minutes later the real motivation behind the clip surfaced — Ramsay was scheming to get behind closed doors so that viewers could
see the painful brutality behind
shark fin soup.
See photos of Taiwan's
shark finning trade»
Because space is limited on fishing vessels and
shark bodies are bulky and not considered as valuable, fishermen often catch the
sharks,
saw off their
fins and toss the
sharks back into the water.
Indeed, during a dive I did 18 years ago in Thailand, I
saw firsthand evidence of this, 95 feet below the surface, where a
shark was dead on the ocean floor without a dorsal or tail
fin.