Up to 3,000 sharks illegally netted on Texas coast

[Fuddnik]

Source: MSNBC.com

Up to 3,000 sharks illegally netted on Texas coast
Mexican fishermen suspected because 'no more fish over there,' warden says


msnbc.com
updated 9/27/2011 12:16:50 PM ET

Game wardens have discovered as many as 3,000 dead adult and juvenile sharks tangled in a long stretch of illegal fishing netting off the Texas coast, the state's Parks and Wildlife Department said.

Department spokesman Steve Lightfoot said the wardens found the net off Texas' southern South Padre Island near the border with Mexico.

"About 3 miles of gill net was removed just past the third sandbar near the mouth of the Rio Grande," the department said in a statement. "The nets were running north to south, catching anything that attempted to get into shallow water."

No arrests have been made, Lightfoot said, according to The Associated Press

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[russspeakeasy]

1. I thought all the sharks were in Texas government...

:evilgrin: sorry, couldn't resist.......I tried, I really did..

[Auntie Bush]

2. The biggest shark of all needs to be netted.

[Dragonfli]

3. It doesn't say if they were "finned" (the most common way to over-fish them)

The value they hold is for the price of their fins, the rest of the shark is discarded, ofttimes still alive with all it's fins cut of.

The practice is illegal most places but is still the most popular way to over fish them for profit.

Such a waste to kill for so little, to kill so cruelly, to kill simply for the profit of $500 a bowl soup.
To kill to survive I can understand, but this?

[onethatcares]

4. three miles of gill net is a long net

the boat that set that is not a small time commercial fisher at all.

what a waste and what a mess we continue to make of this planet in the name of greed.

[aquart]

6. And if they catch the greedy bastard does he go to jail?

[thelordofhell]

5. 'no more fish over there,'

Hmmmm, I wonder how THAT happened................fuck BP

[Gman]

7. In Mexico whatever someone can get away with is legal

No doubt they abandoned it and ran back to Mexico.