USA acts to stem overfishing of sharks

http://www.sportfishingmag.com/news/news/noaa-announces-new-conservation-measures-to-prevent-overfishing-of-sandbar-and-other-sharks--1000059901.html

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NOAA Fisheries has outlined new measures to prevent overfishing and rebuild the number of sandbar and other shark species. The number of sandbar sharks are between 20 and 38 percent of the population in the early 20th century before fishing began on sharks. Recent stock assessments indicate that sandbar, porbeagle, and dusky sharks are severely overfished and therefore drastic measures need to be taken to begin rebuilding. It has been illegal to catch dusky sharks since 2000, but these sharks are taken incidentally when fishermen seek other species.

Sandbar sharks are one of the most valuable shark species caught commercially in the Atlantic Ocean. They make up the majority of the current commercial shark landings and are prized for their fins, which are the main ingredient in dishes such as shark fin soup.

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