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WE MUST SAVE THE SHARKS TO SAVE OURSELVES!!!!!!!!

South Beach Seaweed · 2009-06-16T00:39:45Z

As many of you know me on here,my name is Shannon Bustamante , and i have a confession and a demand to share with anyone willing to listen.In the past I was as stubborn ,immature,and ruthless as every other idiot out there that kills every shark they come in to contact with!!!!! I would slaughter them in cold blood and sell them to pay for my fishing trips, and even save up money, because i would catch so many. But all of a sudden a close friend of mines for years (William Fundora) started Harassing me every chance he got about how wrong it was for me to be killing every shark i caught. At first i was in denial and very hard headed, as i would brush him off every time he would start. But as time went by i started educating myself more and more about sharks and the whole echo system, and the more i learned the more i changed. Today i can honestly and proudly say that me and everyone fishing with me release every shark that we catch, which is a huge milestone, however it is not quite enough!!!!!! Not at all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I say this due to a documentary that i just saw and recommend, actually i beg everyone will watch and pass along to spread the word. The name of it is (Shark Water)beneath the oceans surface. As most of my friends know me, know the fact that i have a very wild and tragic background and i am very cold and numb with my sentimental side. However while watching this film i was almost brought to tears, it touched me so deep.Watching long liners slaughter these sharks and hearing the tragic facts and numbers of sharks killed a year, and the severity of it trickling all the way down to the destruction of human beings.My daughters kids, and the next generation not being able to enjoy shark fishing is one major blow, however it truly goes as deep as us running out of oxygen for raping our oceans which give us 70 % of it. I was so affected by this film that i could not even waight until tomorrow to post this it had to be done immediately.My voice to help expand land based shark fishing, will now take a back seat for a long while as i now have a blood boiling vision to stop the killing of sharks!!!! And the target is not the rod and reel fisherman that kills maybe 10 in a year if that, but the world wide long liners that kill 80-400 sharks a day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A perfect example of why there are not more people helping the cause is because the advanced knowledge, and research a person must do to find these facts, you cant find fliers or billboards any were sending out the message of why we must stop the long liners and the killing of sharks, or about how the extinction of sharks could mean the extinction of human life!!!! Absolutely no were!!!! THAT HAS TO STOP NOW,AND EVERYONE WHO READS THIS AND DOES NOTHING,COULD HAVE BEEN THAT DECIDING VOICE!!!!!!!!!! Even if you spread the word to your family, you helped make change,even if you made home made stickers and posted them every were, than you made change!!!! Its up to the few of us who speak up!!!!!! Sincerely : Shannon Bustamante

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Pantyhosesharker

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Monoxide there is nothing wrong with that my man!!! Actually i have no problem with any fisherman who uses a rod, killing sharks at all, unless there killing 40 plus a year, than they are not even a speck of sand in the conversation with long liners!!! one of the problems is rod and reel fisherman attacking each other, instead of using that same anger and enthusiasm against the real problem which is long liners!!! when it comes to long liners only a select few are after them and that needs to change!!!!

AGREED!

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Posted : 06/21/2009 11:01 am

Picua

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Shannon and for anyone interested, here is the info on the Shark Workshops. I think the Dania one is closest to us.

http://www.myfwc.com/docs/RulesRegulati ... rkshop.pdf

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Posted : 06/21/2009 11:19 am

South Beach Seaweed

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i just saw the one in dania but its too late to go now!!! if there is any other ones coming soon can you post them again please!!!

SFSC -East Coast Events Coordinator

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Topic starter Posted : 06/23/2009 11:39 am

jamesk

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I am going to the one this thursday in Punta Gorda I will let you know what they are thinking about doin after I get back

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Posted : 06/23/2009 1:41 pm

South Beach Seaweed

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thanks bro, speak up for all of us on long lining, and find more dates and future locations brother!!!

SFSC -East Coast Events Coordinator

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Topic starter Posted : 06/24/2009 1:36 am

jamesk

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No problem I can do that

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Posted : 06/24/2009 7:57 am

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