ViceZilla’s Views

Columbian Naval Officials seized a boat off the country’s pacific coast that contained 2 tonnes of fins from endangered sharks including hammerheads, silkies, oceanics, white fins, black fins, fox shark and reef shark.

The Colombian-flagged vessel was stopped 18 nautical miles from Malpelo Island, a natural world heritage site off Colombia’s Pacific coastline.

Cartels led by Japanese and Colombians are said to be behind the big business of shark fins in the Colombian Pacific.

“The Asians control the routes and the markets, and they intimidate the local fishermen and distributors who are paid a pittance per kilo,” about 30 dollars, said a Colombian official with the Environmental Crimes Investigation Group, who asked not to be identified.

Officials estimate that around 350 ships — mostly from Japan, Taiwan, Ecuador and Mexico — fish for the prize in Colombian waters.

Shark fins have now become a major black market commodity, so much so that it is now just behind drugs in terms of major organized crime. This is a sad reality caused by Asian society’s demand for a bowl of soup.

Are the people (and there must be a lot of them!) who are paying up to $150 per bowl of Shark Fin Soup so narrow minded, selfish, and ignorant that they don’t realize what their ’status symbol’ soup is doing to OUR oceans?

Over 100 million sharks are slaughtered per year, just so you can have a bowl of soup! What’s wrong with you people? No seriously, what part of this don’t you understand?

Read the atrocity against this animal here

Enough is enough already!

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