Taras Grescoe is Sharky Approved.
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Taras Grescoe has managed to publish a book that matters in a publishing industry full of romance novels, right wing manifestos, self-help, and movie novelizations. He is the author of Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood. Most of the seafood sold in North America is either chock full of heavy metals, contributing to the extinction of species, or both.

Bottomfeeder explains it all, showing you wish fisheries are sustainable, which fish are actually still healthy for you, and what you can do and what you can eat to save what is left of our bleeding oceans.

Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood. Support The Chum Slick: Buy it from us!

Three of the top offenses--eating Blue Fin Tuna, Atlantic Halibut, and Atlantic Cod. Thank the popularity of sushi for the impending extinction of the Blue Fin, and thank the piss-poor management by the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Guess what his number one oceanic offense is? You guessed it--eating Shark!

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North Americans fly off the handle when they see that they eat endangered Tigers in China, or endangered Gorillas in the Congo, but don't seem to see any problem with taking down a few Tuna Rolls at their local sushi joint. IT IS THE SAME THING.

--Sharky

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Two Sea Shepherd mariners, Captain Alexander Cornelissen and First Officer Peter Hammarstedt, of the vessel Farley Mowat pleaded NOT GUILTY today in Nova Scotia to charges of coming to close to Seal hunters without a proper Seal-Hunt observation license. The supposed infraction happened on March 30 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. A gang of seal clubbers claimed that the Sea Shepherd vessel Farley Mowat got within 900 meters of them on the ice near Cape Breton. Sea Shepherd contends that Farley Mowat is a Dutch-registered ship and not subject to Canadian regulations that attempt to hide the bloody massacre of Seals from the rest of the world. Sea Shepherd also contends that the ship was not within the 900-meter limit and was in fact in international waters. If found guilty the two mariners are subject to obscene fines of up to US$98,680 and a year in jail.

The Canadian Coast Guard continues to hold the Farley Mowat hostage. The failing and heavily subsidized Canadian Seal Clubbing industry sells pelts mostly to Norway, Russia, and China. Seal products are banned in civilized countries.

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In related news, hundreds of civilized people protested outside the European Union headquarters in Brussels yesterday. They were demanding that the entire 27-nation EU impose a continent-wide ban on Seal products from Canada and elsewhere.

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Eh?

--El Tiburon

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Seal clubbing season runs from July 1 to November 15 in the African nation of Namibia. This year's quota is the same as last year's--86,000! And the best part? Namibian Sealers don't care so much about international outrage as Canadian Sealers--80,000 of the Seals to be clubbed this year are nursing pups. That's right! Baby Seals!

Seals are processed for their skin, fur, and meat (except no one really eats them and the market for seal products dwindles every year).

Seal blood and waste products are rendered into Seal oil for use in quack pills and medicines.

The justification for the slaughter as laid down by Moses Maurihungirire, the director of resource management at Namibia's Ministry of Fisheries and Marine resources, is that seals eat 1/3 of Namibia's fish, which is bad for Namibian fishermen, also the slaughter creates 149 jobs. Nice!

The white stuff? After being stabbed, this baby Seal is spitting up the milk it had just suckled from its mother.

Need we say any more?

--El Tiburon

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