Mexicans slaughter 100 million or more sharks?!!!

Read this article. It's mindblogging. Apparently 100 million or more sharks are killed by Mexican "fishermen" each year, just to cut their fins off for Chinese soup, and they toss the rest of the body to rot. At this rate they are wiping out their own oceanic treasure and ruining it for everyone else. Sharks are essential in the ocean ecosystem.

Unbelievable. Surely someone can come up with jobs that don't involve wiping out entire species for their fin so that Chinese can eat $300 a bowl shark fin soup, or peddling drugs. I'm exaggerating a bit but not so much?

http://www.surfline.com/surfnews/surfwire.cfm?id=15116