SHARKS NEED YOUR HELP / AMAZON.COM PLAYS ITS PART
(Photos Copyright Justin Ebert)
11 JAN 2007 - If you search Amazon.com today, you get no results for shark fin. Fantastic. So it seems Amazon deserves our thanks for listening to their customers and heeding the voices as the ground-swell of support for the sharks grew. Thank you Amazon, you should be congratulated. And thanks to those that first raised the issue, and everyone that contributed.
3 JAN 2007 - Recently I read a report by underwater photographer Justin Ebert about his first-hand exerience with shark-finners in Raja Ampart.
As you can see from Justin's photos, the slaughter of sharks for this trade is barbaric, and incredibly wasteful; sharks are caught, definned and the otherwise complete carcasses are throw into the sea.
If you're wondering, you can see a snapshot of the extent of the market if you look here. Even a company that you think might know better, US-based Amazon.com is carrying shark fin soup and other products through three third-party vendors Roland, Pacific Rim Gourmet, and VitaminLife.
With all the controversy surrounding shark fins and the
horrible practices
used to harvest fins, Amazon should be ashamed to be carrying shark fin products
and should rectify the problem immediately by pulling all shark fin products
from their catalog.
Read on to see what you can do: