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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (38927)	2/12/2013 4:02:25 AM
From: Jorj X Mckie	4 Recommendations Respond to of 85487

This is true; they are saved by governments. The groups only make the government save them. Nope, the government doesn't save any species. They just create jobs for environmentalists and destroy jobs in a variety of industries. Scientists consider the West Coast population to be genetically distinct and isolated from other great white populations worldwide, and it is this population that would be protected under state or federal listings, Shester said. This is a classic mealy mouthed pseudo science statement. Either they are or they are not genetically distinct. And they are not geographically isolated. California sharks regularly migrate to hawaii and baja and chile. Some Australian sharks migrate to South Africa. Some South African sharks migrate to australia. But if you read the report listed on the NOAA website (June 20, 2012), they don't say anything about genetically distinct. They refer to them as a "distinct population segment". And then they use worldwide population reduction to justify putting them on the endangered list here in the U.S. The point being, the problem isn't in the U.S. It is in other countries. But the environmentalists make it look like they are doing something noble, when in fact it is, at best, symbolic. Is there some genetic isolation? well yeah, for the most part, the california shark population stays within its migration area down to baja and out to sea near hawaii. The genetic study says that "little" interbreeding occurs between the california population and other southwest pacific populations. It doesn't say "no" interbreeding. It says "little". That means there is some.