Posted by Local sportfishman on April 25, 2002 at 07:42:45:
In Reply to: Shark Slaughter 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.
Thank to that barbarian, I can catch a meal at the docks again. For the past few months the mutton-snapper in the surrounding waters Valentines and the airport stripe wasn't bite frequently or the sharks was taking off with our lines. I fished last night (4/24/02) and caught three good mutton fish. On the night of the 23rd, I fished between Valentines and the dock just south of it, that magestic shark took off with my fish, and my fishing line.I'll admit that the shark is a mis, but now we can go back to catching the mutton fish.