slasherx i highly recommend that you not respond to this guys article about the cacth of your 14 ft hammerhead. From a guy who has dealt immensely with the media they will not write your story with good intentions. They will put you on record of the catch, and then accuse you as a idiot land base fisherman who broke rules and unknowingly killed a endangered species.
He already has
dam uk sharker thanks for the article I didn't read your post at the time I replied. you could tell exactly were that one sided idiot was going with his Shit blog
Its more like big government [...] The BIG picture is that out of all the people in the USA shark fishing there are probably less than 1,000 doing it annually and out of those 1,000 they are probably responsible for less than 1,00 total sharks caught - if you figured on the super extreme high side of things lets say that 50% of those died - your now talking about 500 dead sharks. Now the BIG question is how many days does it take for the long liners and net fishermen to kill 500 sharks. We are the smallest drop in the bucket and unless we stand our ground and stand together on the same platform we will be the easiest target for these radical groups...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWt8hTayupE
You are 100% right. We are the smallest "slice" of the pie chart, but we're the easiest to go after. Compared to the #1, #2, and #3 sources of shark fatalities, we are the smallest drop in the bucket. If all the effort to reduce the impact of the #5th biggest cause of shark fatalities, it will be like cutting $100 million from a $3.5 trillion dollar budget. To ever make a size able difference to a major problem, you have to always go after the #1 or #2 contributor to that problem, rather than going after the most convenient segment. 
This one commercial catch probably kills more sharks then all the shark fisherman in Florida for the whole year combined! (however, this problem is rampant in healthcare also, where people blame the $6 tylenol pills or $80 syringe bags for the rising costs of healthcare rather than the #1 or #2 contributors to that problem)