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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (82458)	10/31/2011 4:42:25 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (4) of 217705

Hawk, I decided you aren't joking. <Raise the price for shark fins and it will only increase their poaching and smuggling. What has to happen is an outright ban on the practice, and a strong education process as to why eating shark is not a sustainable food resource. I was disgusted by all the shark fin restaurants in Bangkok. Couldn't seem to find a good, traditional, chinese restaurant there because everything centered around shark fin soup. > TJ didn't mean raise the price. He meant as shortage develops, the price will go up until it's a real luxury to eat shark fins. As you wrote, that will cause people to keep looking for the fewer sharks. At some stage, long before sharks become extinct [which would be no bad thing], it will be uneconomic to catch the last sharks. It's not as though they sit dumbly up on the beach where they are easy to find. They don't even have to come to the surface to breathe which would make it easy to kill most of the killer whales which are causing maui and hector dolphins to be almost extinct [along with being eaten by sharks]. People in NZ are moaning about the dolphin depredation but won't recognize the real problem which is not nets, it's killer whales. That's my theory anyway. Killer whales have been found with many dolphins in their stomachs. Why were you disgusted by Chinese restaurants in Bangkok serving shark fin soup? If there's a shortage of dinkum Chinese restaurants and there's a surplus of customers, open one! Be like a Hindu Indian restaurant which doesn't sell beef Madras. There are vegetarian restaurants. It's a market and anyone can start supplying the customers. Your restaurant could advertize = "No shark fin soup". "We love sharks". Shark is obviously a sustainable food resource because they keep chucking the bodies of the sharks overboard and there are plenty still to come. It's hard to imagine the top of the food chain running out of luck after umpty millions of years of doing very well indeed. There's no way you'd get rid of sharks. They are like fleas and ants - they just keep coming no matter what you do. Smallpox was vanquished and good riddance. If we could make oceans safe to swim in it would be a great thing too. Eat shark!! Don't let them eat you or your children. Mqurice

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