Why should a fish drown?

Well it is shark week, and this is the first time I actually caught some of the programming. I can't decide if I have been more amazed or more disgusted.

The amazing side is all about the sharks and some fo the scientists that really are getting inside of these mystical lions of the sea. The sharkman in his attempts to place sharks in a state of tonic is mindblowing. I watched him take a one ton creature and float along with it as it was being controlled (for lack of better words) by his contact. It is an overdose of sensory to them and they just are, well I can only say it looks like they are having a quiet orgasm.

Anyway, the real urge to post about this was, unfortunately, more because of what disgusted me. It was two things. The first was simply due to the ignorance of people that we tend to hold in high regard.

With all of the occurences over the past hundred years when a scientist says, "it appears that all of these adverse actions may be affecting the overall ecosystem" you kind of have to say back "no shit!" The story was based in Hawaii where there was a task force set up to combat the shark population and try to decide why increased attacks were occuring on Hawaii beaches. When someone was attacked they would gather the boats and hunt down the shark like Jaws with the hope that the shark they killed was the 'bad' shark. As we all know sharks would never hurt a fly, it just isn't in their nature ;)

So, what they came to find out was two things. One, that rarely do they ever get the shark that actually caused the attack. How do they know this? They started inserting tracking devices in sharks. What they were able to find with the data is that in one day the average shark travels about 60 miles and in many cases were hopping from island to island. Second, that by killing many of the larger sharks, the smaller sharks (a different type of shark) were populating ten fold.

See the smaller sharks were now on a free-for-all as the larger sharks fed on the smaller sharks. Well the smaller sharks eat smaller fish. So now all of the smaller fish were being eaten in high numbers. Therefore, the fishermen were unable to catch many fish. So as they started getting poorer and the restaurants started not having fresh fish, people start realizing, "it appears that all of these adverse actions may be affecting the overall ecosystem".

People, don't live in a box. Open up a window every once in awhile and realize that you are part of a bigger picture. I am not talking about glory to god type of big picture, just that there are things that surround you. So just think about the larger space and if you remove one thing, something else will start taking up the room. It is all part of the balance that keep us floating around in this universe.

PART 2: Disgusting thing number 2 I will keep short. If you know anyone that makes a profit by catching sharks and then cutting off all of their fins and yanking out their teeth and then throwing them back in the ocean - PLEASE KILL THEM! So please don't buy the little souvenirs of shark teeth and such; it is just supporting these ruthless morons. Two of the worst two images I have ever seen on television was an elepphant who lay rotting alive in the desert as his tusks were removed and a shark floating to the bottom of the ocean drowning because it had no fins, nor tail, nor teeth.

A fish drowning is like us just running out of air. That would be suitable punishment for these people. Just lock them up and slowly drain the air from the room. I will take the time to make that the third worst site I have seen, but would appreciate once again the balance that keeps us floating around in this universe.

Good day.