Posted by Disgusted on April 25, 2002 at 06:57:27:
The 12 ft long hammerhead shark that has been cruising the harbour for the last few months will be seen no more, thanks to the appalling actions of Mario Grant.
The shark was hooked up 'for fun' by a thoughtless tourist and landed on the boat ramp by Valentines. This beautiful, graceful, and endangered fish was then shot in the head with a 12 gauge shotgun by Mario. When the once magestic shark was cut open she was found to be heavily pregnant. Inside her were 31 perfectly formed baby hammerheads with no more than a week to go until they would have been born.
Thanks to the incredible ignorance of this man I will never again have the pleasure of seeing this shark swim around the marinas eating the fish carcasses discarded by the visiting sport-fishermen, and thanks to him I will never get to see her babies grow and develop.
What a sight the lucky tourists witnessed - a barbarian needlessly slaughtering a rare and beautiful endangered creature.