Bowled sharks

We consume 3.3 shark fins per second, 200 per minute, 11417 per hour and approximately 100,000,000 per year.

So if one fin was one shark

This is what that consumption would look like.
BUT the taste actually comes from chicken or pork? (according to some sources)


I just found this data very amusing.



Why, what's up with eating too many sharks?
1.They are the main predators of the ocean.
Read what happens if we finish the main predators of the ocean.
Mercury level in fish - http://www2.ca.uky.edu/enri/pubs/enri_220.pdf
Consume less at the top of the food chain - http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/feb/18/fishing-food

2.Also, the point here is that we eat shark fins and not sharks. So most of it is thrown back in the ocean, dead? Where does that 98% of the animal go?

Tuna - bycatch

I came across these two videos explaining the catch of Tuna. One video is about the illegal catch of Bluefin Tuna which happens to be an endangered species and the other is about the abundance and constantly regenerating Skipjack Tuna. But most importantly it is the method in which they are caught that you would want to pay attention to.

Most of the times we don't even know how our fish was caught, where it has come from, etc. (especially in India). But the bycatch is tremendous!

I am just intrigued by these two methods of fishing shown in both the videos. Even after being a critically endangered species the Bluefin Tuna is caught in an industrial scale with almost zero possibility of being able to regenerate itself. And that increases the bycatch intensively. While the Skipjack almost being like the cockroaches of the sea is being caught in a smarter and 'blue-er' way reducing the bycatch to almost zero.

I am still researching more on what the entire story is but just wanted to record this observation before I lost track of them.


(thankyou sciencedump)