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As an apex predator, shark flesh concentrates a whole pile of polutants. Mercury, PCBs, organophosphates and nasty organic halides for instance. It is definitely not good for you.

  It is great that so many people care enough to sign this petition. Please do your bit to help by adding your signature at the petition website. To: Hu Jintao president of the People’s Republic of China. Currently the Chinese people are eating a soup which is causing the biggest ecological disaster of our [...]

Press Release: Warwickshire UK, March 14, 2007 — Sharks Fin soup, mainly eaten in China, is the cause of a massive ecological disaster, the near extinction of many species of shark. Now Bruce Everiss, the owner of diving website Scubabrucie.com http://www.scubabrucie.com/ has started an online petition so anyone can voice their feelings on this issue. [...]

Bottom trawling is a fishing practice where a net is dragged along the bottom of the sea to catch the seafood that lives there. This is often done with 2 horizontal steel beams, each up to 12 metres long, which indescriminately catch or destroy most life in their path. This practice is exactly the same as dynamite fishing a coral reef or [...]

Over 90% of the world’s sharks are already gone. They are fishing out 100 million a year. It is not just in Asia, the Spanish have just about eradicated the Atlanic Blue shark. They are easy to catch, lines miles long with baited hooks every few yards. The value is in the fins so they [...]

A marine ecosystem is a lot different from a land ecosystem. On land the food chain is usually very simple, carnivore eats herbivore. In the water the food chain is usually very long with a large number of small steps all the way from plankton up to shark. So if you remove a species from the [...]

 Having been to Bonaire at exactly the same time last year we knew what to expect. One difference is that I had a small target in sight starting the holiday on 931 dives, so I needed 69 dives in 19 days to get to 1,000, an average of just over 3.6 per day.  Supposedly Brazilian [...]

The Shark Alliance published an excellent 20-page report called Revealing Europe’s impact on shark populations back in August. The link above will download the report as a PDF document. It explains the full situation in detail and it is something we can all use to help spread the message and tell of the disaster that [...]

Bull sharks probably come into human contact far more than any other. There is still a large population of them because they breed less slowly than many other sharks, they are happy in shallow water, they go up rivers and even live into lakes, and they are found where there are lots of humans in [...]

I just about always do a night dive if there is one going and have had some fantastic dives. Especially the house reef at Tasik Ria in Manado which comes alive with an amazing biodiversity. In Bonaire there are no sharks because they are all caught by the local fishermen (all part of being a [...]