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To: tejek who wrote (138895)	8/19/2001 10:12:45 PM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1588617

In the meantime we kill more than 100 million per year This type of absurd statistic is typical of the liberal approach to a problem. Just overstate the numbers to make it sound much worse than it is.

To: tejek who wrote (138895)	8/20/2001 12:22:43 AM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1588617

I think the odds that we actually kill more the 100 million sharks a year is very low. I'm not even sure that there are that many sharks to kill. According to pelagic.org "The number of sharks caught annually by various high-seas fisheries between 1989 and 1991 has been estimated at 11.6 to 12.7 million. The long-line fisheries for tunas of Japan, Korea, and Taiwan account for most of these by-catches. " That is a lot more then I thought but still a lot less then "over 100 million". Tim