In the aftermath of last week's fatal Shark jam in Troncones, Mexico of surfer Adrian Ruiz, the Mexican Navy in all their enlightened glory is bragging about laying 200 yards of baited hooks in order to kill all the Sharks in th area. It is believed that the architect of this master plan is Navy Commander Arturo Bernal. The chance of this slaughter reducing the number of already statistically nonexistent Shark/human encounters is none. The chance of this slaughter further endangering depleted Shark populations is 100 percent.

Adding fuel to the fire is an American real estate developer a scumbag land-rapist that has offered a $1,000 bounty for the Shark that got Adrian Ruiz. Thanks to the campaign by environmental group Wildcoast, the state of Guerrero's Minister of Ecology visited Troncones on Saturday and ordered the cessation of the shark hunt. Troncones locals were against the Shark slaughter from the start, arguing quite wisely that what would have saved Adrian Ruiz was a local hospital, not a Shark massacre. Ruiz died because there is no local medical care in Trocones.

Thanks to Wildcoast.

Thanks to 5ones.

And thanks to Marco for nudging me gently from my weekend torpor.

Hooray for uncommon sense,

--Sharky

technorati tags: Sharks, Mexico, Navy, Wildcoast, real estate, Shark Attacks, endangered species, Acapulco, Troncones

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