Actually, if we had our way they would also lose their shriveled little testicles, the vote, and would be forced to wear helmets, but we digress...

Colin Sherman was fishing off the beach at Glinks Gully, New Zealand when he claims to have found a dead 7-foot Great White Shark at the end of his line...hmmmmmm....sound suspicious?
Who is in worse shape, Colin or the dead Shark?

Mr Sherman believes the shark was a juvenile, perhaps a month old, which he says denotes the mother is probably swimming around in the vicinity. He says the shark was dead when he got to it.

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A 7-foot one-month-old Great White, Colin? You gotta lay off the sauce. There isn't a Great White cunt large enough to squeeze something that big out. A baby Megalodon was never even that big. Nice story though about the thing being dead before you got to it and having a mother somewhere in world...What the fuck New Zealand, you guys need to get with the rest of the free world and tighten up your Sharking regulations. In 2008, a fisherman should fear having their picture taken with a threatened species, whether the kill was intentional, accidental(unlikely), or anything else.

Oh, and here is something that was more likely than Colin's Shark being dead when he found it. Global Warming has really been laying havoc to middle America. Look what happened on Monday in Cedar Rapids, Iowa!
Believe!

--Sharky

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With summer comes the slew of east coast Shark fishing tournaments, with their obligatory cast of rich drunk trophy fishermen and cheering crowds of savages high on blood and Budweiser at the weigh-ins. Great. This weekend brings us the Mako Mania tournament in Ocean City Maryland. Contestants will be vying to "earn" prize money by killing threatened species. Feel free to pay a visit to Bahia Marina on 21st street in Ocean City to hassle these decadent "sportsmen."

Read this, I can't make it up:

Makos are some of the wildest fighters in the ocean. Inexperienced captains are often afraid to bring one on board because they can suddenly come back to life hours after being brought in. Many will lash the shark to the side or back of the boat, and often they will shoot it first. Makos are notorious for surviving multiple gunshots to the head.

Both the OC Shark Tournament and Mako Mania have divisions for thresher sharks, which are stunningly beautiful creatures. They have tails that are usually as long as their bodies and they use them to knock out fish before eating them. Threshers have been seen trailing boats knocking baits around before they devour them. One year, a thresher was put up on the scales and then cut open, at which point a live baby shark came tumbling out of the mother's belly.

(For the conservation-minded folks sitting in on this blog, both tournaments have highly encouraged release divisions. Very few sharks that are hooked will be brought to the scales. As far as I know, the baby shark was returned to the ocean safe-and-sound.)

Source.

Uh...Yeah...I'm sure the baby Shark is alright.

Meanwhile, while Americans are killing Sharks for sport, New Zealand's Green Party is trying valiantly to get Shark finning banned in their waters. Shark finning is not illegal in New Zealand, which is sad and strange. The next step ensuring that there will be a Shark or two left in the sea, is for a UN resolution internationally banning Shark finning.

If it bleeds, it must be profitable.

Read.

If it seems like we have been a bit slow on the posts lately, it's because we have had a bunch of shitty social obligations. *Sigh* all tomorrow's parties...


--Sharky

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