Vampire Knight.

♠ Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Kaname Kuran; Yuuki Kuran; Zero Kiryuu

People eat shark fins cause they might tast good but it is wrong and i think it should stop cause the people who supply the shark fin catch the shark cut off the fin and then through the rest of the shark into the ocean where it it left to die.

OMG stop eating shark fin?Is it healthy?

But scientifically speaking, shark fin has little nutritional value--and, in fact, it may even be harmful to health over the long term, as shark fins have been found to contain high levels of mercury.

What exactly is finning?

"Finning" refers to the practice of cutting off only the shark fins and discarding the body. Sometimes sharks are dead when they're pulled into the boats, but often, they're still alive as their four fins are cut off with a knife. When they're thrown back into the ocean the sharks either bleed to death, or they drown, because sharks can't swim without fins, and they need to go forward to get oxygen. Divers have discovered hundreds of dead finned sharks at the bottom of the ocean in huge shark graveyards.

Fifty percent of sharks are bycatch -- they're accidentally caught by boats that are looking for tuna, swordfish or other fish. Many of the boats don't want to keep the entire shark, so they just fin them. This greatly increases the amount of sharks killed, because a fishing boat can hold an enormous amount of fins.

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