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Shark Finning in Costa Rica
By Victor Krumm of Costarica-discover-it.com
Halfway between Costa Rica and the Galapagos Islands is Cocos Island. Few people have ever heard of it but the famous explorer, Jacque Yves Cousteau, once described it as the "most beautiful island in the world." It wasn't the trees and beaches that mesmerized him. Instead, he was referring to its undersea treasure: its marine life. Despite the difficulty in getting to the island (think 30 hours in open ocean), this is Costa Rica scuba diving at its greatest and many experienced divers consider this the very best dive location on the planet for viewing large marine life. Its waters host an incredible abundance of species and sheer numbers of fish but many visit to see its sharks. Over the centuries, its remoteness has preserved its ecosystem but today, despite the fact that it is a Costa Rica National Park and off limits to fishing, modern day pirates invade its waters with their long-lines stretching mile after mile. Their quarry are sharks but not for their meat. The quest is for fins which are cut off these animals, sometimes while still alive, and taken to the Orient as an ingredient for shark fin soup. The victims are discarded into the depths, whether alive or dead, and incidental by-catch victims, sailfish, sea turtles, or dozens of other species meet the same wasteful fate. Sharks have been around since the days of dinosaurs but are under serious pressure across the world, and in some places seriously threatened, simply to make soup. And, as species decline, shark fin prices climb, leading to further unsustainable depredation. Cousteau once noted: "Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history." He's been gone for some dozen years now but sadly 21st century man learned little from his 20th predecessors. |
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