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Banning finning is unambiguously good, and sharks are indeed and important keystone species. However if the majority of shark deaths occur as by-catch or due to
by waffleiron 4y ago
Banning finning is unambiguously good, and sharks are indeed and important keystone species. However if the majority of shark deaths occur as by-catch or due to global warming there isn’t a lot of change in outcome.
This is like the whaling on Greenland, cruel and highly visible but also doesn’t impact you or me in any way. It’s easy to push these types of bans through, but it can also be a distraction of the actual harms that we are perpetuating.
- kajecounterhack 4y agoThe health of fisheries is often death by inaction because every special interest group blames each other -- recreational anglers blame commercial anglers blame climate change and nobody can point the finger hard enough to get anything done, exactly by way of arguing "this is just a distraction from the actual harm" We just can't know whether any action will move the needle, not for sure, unless we go do it.