Sharkwater Page #4
He asked me to join the campaign
to stop the illegal fishing of sharks.
Okay.
I joined Paul in Los Angeles...
...aboard the Sea Shepherd ship,
the Ocean Warrior...
...and we started our journey south...
They repaint and rename the boat
on every new campaign...
by the poachers.
...dozens of times
and proudly displays its kill flags...
...the flags of boats it has rammed
or sunk, on the side of the ship.
It's equipped with a can opener...
...that extends from the side of the boat
in case of battle.
We traveled south on the open ocean
for 12 days straight.
and 50 miles inside Guatemalan waters...
...we found a pirate long-lining boat
illegally poaching sharks.
Doesn't take much
to catch illegal fishing around here...
I'll tell ya.
Jesus Christ...
...they're going slower.
The Varadero was from Costa Rica
and had no permit...
...to fish outside of Costa Rica
or inside Guatemala.
Which way?
We radioed Guatemala...
...who asked us to escort the boat
into port for arrest.
We asked that they bring in their lines
and release any sharks...
...that were caught...
...but they weren't releasing
the sharks.
They're not answering?
We were racing them to the lines;
...every time they got ahead of us,
they killed more sharks.
All these boats,
from many countries...
...when they go fishing...
...and that's actually
everywhere in the world...
...all they want is profit.
Once they've left port...
...it's like the ocean is a free place;
...you do what you want out there.
They got another shark!
Got a shark?
Tell that guy
to release that shark.
Tell him that if he doesn't release
those sharks...
...we're gonna sink his line.
Hey, Rob, did you get a picture
of that shark?
If he doesn't stop,
we'll run up ahead and grab the line.
Actually hold on,
Bring it up to the bow and see
if you can get it on the winch.
Got their line?
Grab the line.
If you can grab the line on...
Where's the next one?
Get it? Goddamn,
as fast as we get up to it...
...they're pulling it off.
They wouldn't stop
killing sharks.
The sharks were incredibly
important to them.
They were killing them
for their fins.
Shark-fin soup
is a symbol of wealth...
...and served as a sign of respect.
The soup has been around
for centuries...
...but only in the last two decades
has it boomed in popularity.
The fin is tasteless...
...adding only texture to a soup
flavoured with chicken or pork broth.
...served at weddings, banquets...
...and expensive dinners.
is worth more than $200 US...
...and the shark-fin industry...
...is a billion-dollar juggernaut.
Every year,
an estimated 30 to 70 million sharks...
...are killed to support
...in their fins and other products.
But the biggest prize is the shark fin.
Half a world away,
in Hong Kong and China...
...shark-fin soup is a delicacy.
It sells for up to $90 a bowl.
It's a royal food;
...it's the food of the emperors.
They make a soup out of the fins...
...and any Chinese chef
that's worth his weight...
...has to be able to make
great shark-fin soup...
...as strange as that may seem,
and this is causing the demise...
...of the populations of sharks
in the ocean.
The word was out...
...that fins meant money...
...and sharks were being killed
solely for their fins...
with a coastline.
There's so much money in fins...
...that only trafficking drugs
rivals fins for profit.
People thousands of years from now,
if we manage to survive...
...aren't gonna have much respect
for cultures...
...that deprived them of the things
that we now have...
...that diminish their world for them.
They're not gonna have any respect
...just as we don't have any respect
for the culture of slavery.
For the first time
in over 400 million years...
...sharks were prey.
They were even killing whale sharks.
The largest fish on Earth...
...that eats only microscopic plankton
and has no teeth.
They are the gentle giants
that roam the warm waters of the world...
...following plankton blooms.
We know nothing
about their life cycles...
...where they mate...
...or how long they live...
...though they're thought
to live as long as us.
And now the whale shark,
along with their relatives...
and the basking shark...
...are endangered.
A large fin like this...
...can now sell
for more than $10,000 in China...
...and conservationists say
the growing trade in shark fin...
...has become a serious threat
not only to whale sharks...
...but also to other shark species
almost everywhere.
By the time it gets to Asia...
...it's gonna be up to $200 US a pound
for the dry shark fin.
So it goes from 80 cents here
to a myriad of middlemen...
...ending up at $200 US
from 80 cents...
...so it's a magical little process...
...that we've gotta figure out
how it gets there.
Yeah, it's the fin, fish.
They make some kind of pills
of a shark fin.
In Asia, they think
because sharks don't get sick...
...as easily as other animals do...
...that sharks
have some magical power to heal...
...and it's all false information...
...because sharks get cancer,
sharks get problems.
- He doesn't want us to film.
- Not allowed to film?
He tells us to leave.
Uh, we just went in restaurant
Lun Fung and got kicked out.
you can get it in a takeout form.
You can even go to pharmacies
to buy shark fin in pill form...
...because of its powers
to make you strong.
That shows you the misconceptions
everyone has about sharks...
...that they think because sharks
are resilient to some parasites...
...and they don't get sick
...that if you eat sharks
that power's gonna transfer to you.
Some companies have capitalized
on the sharks' resilience to disease...
...marketing shark cartilage
as a cancer or arthritis treatment.
But there's no scientific backing
to this at all.
It's actually been proven...
...to do nothing to cure disease...
...and now sharks are so contaminated
with mercury and other pollutants...
...we've put in the ocean...
...that eating shark products...
...is more likely
to cause disease than cure it.
The Varadero
continued finning sharks...
...and throwing the bodies overboard.
We tried to talk with them:
They are illegally fishing
and they have to come with us.
It was easy to see their motivation
money, big money...
...but they were poaching sharks
illegally.
On instructions
from the authorities in Guatemala...
...we ordered them
to stop killing sharks...
...and follow us into port.
Yeah, ask him.
He's got to make a decision...
...whether we're gonna tow him
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Submitted on August 05, 2018
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