They may not be cute and fuzzy, but…
When fishing for tuna or swordfish in the Atlantic, sharks often fall prey to “bycatching”. This is part of the reason that almost all recorded shark species have declined by half in the past eight to 15 years.
“Some fishing processes are actually strip mining the ocean,” said Dave Schofield, the manager of the National Aquarium’s ocean health program. “They throw them away like trash. If they aren’t already dead from exposure, the ones that swim away are severely stressed and die soon after.” (the full story)
In other cruelty to animals news:
Two California poultry farmers who needed to destroy 30,000 chicken that could no longer produce eggs and that were under quarantine for the poultry virus Exotic Newcastle Disease (and therefore couldn’t become chicken soup) fed the live chickens into wood chippers.
They will not face criminal charges. The men claim that they asked a senior veterinarian with the Agriculture Department if they could employ the wood chippers and were given permission.(the full story)
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