For anyone interested...

http://www.sharkresearchcommittee.com/index.html

http://www.docstoc.com/docs/12665438...arkESApetition

IF (BIG IF) I make it through the Labor Day Weekend surfing off the beach cities of LA I might donate to save the sharks. Assuming they are nice enough to leave me be.

Here's what you do...

Go and buy one of those Hello, my name is name tags, write Freddy, and smart creatures that they are they'll find you so completely distasteful that they'll stay away.

Promise.

(Have fun!)

i hope the 'men in grey suits' leave you alone.

Home safe, despite an incredible rip and massive waves. The sharks were a distant afterthought compared to the swell. I was legitimately scared out there.

I swam with these guys - though I confess to a very startled reaction when I looked down and one was mere inches away from me. :o

http://www.utsandiego.com/photos/gal...ard-sharks/#/0

tony and i swam with sharks at disney-leopards and bonnet heads, rays, etc. it was awesome.
used to jump in the water when we'd go fishing in the chesa. bay, or down in va. was swimming one time and dad pulled in a shark on his line-about a 4 1/2 footer. :D so, i've actually been swimming with sharks that i never saw. now, that can be a bit scary.

Hooray for swimming with sharks!

Oh and big time applause to Cathay Pacific...

Cathay Bans Shark Fins From Cargo Flights

Cathay Pacific deals a blow to Hong Kong's shark fin industry

http://news.discovery.com/earth/cath...go-120905.html

:tro:

Some really neat photos:
http://www.ouramazingplanet.com/3424...-and-rays.html

Just incredible! :)

Thanks for posting this... I would have missed it.

In Bonn this week...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environmen...ion-plan-talks

http://www.cms.int/species/sharks/MO...s_overview.htm

When will they begin to realize there is NO medicinal value? :(

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-19725397

So incredibly sad and shocking... just sick.

Did you see this?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...7bd_story.html

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news...-1226482672726 :eek:

"This is, after all, a fish - let's keep it in perspective." -- what a f'n idiot.

I saw the other one too, so sad.

just ate steamed blue crabs, crawfish boudin balls, and something called 'killa fries'. yeah, they were killa. probably pay for that later.

drinking a mudslide for dessert. :D

something to be said about living so close to the looziana border.

Whale shark adoptions...

http://sharks.org/whale-shark-adoption.html

All for a fvcking bowl of soup...

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/blog/...+kong+rooftop/

that is awful. 10k fins, that's about 2000 sharks. absolutely reprehensible. problem is, sharks don't have quite the pr campaign that elephants and rhinos and whales have.