Life of a Shark

[Aralyn]

Originally posted by Eärniel
Couldn't agree more with you GW. Sharks are fascinating creatures. And they could use some sympathy. Shark populations are dwindling at alarming speed nowadays due to discarded and illegal invisible nets and the sick practise of 'finning' the sharks (catching them, cutting off all their fins and throwing the still living but immobilised shark into the sea). Mmm... better stop before I launch myself into a 'save the shark' carreer.

Yeah you'll get ME started. You see save the whales and dolphins and cute furry anamils but save the sharks? Oh no!!

Sorry

Very good Lief. Interesting perspective.

[Lief Erikson]

Glad you liked it, Aralyn .

Actually, there are people out there who are hosting "save the shark" operations. Many species of shark are protected by laws in certain areas, even though those laws certainly don't prevent everyone from killing sharks.

Originally posted by Eärniel
, I like them. And they could use some sympathy. Shark populations are dwindling at alarming speed nowadays due to discarded and illegal invisible nets and the sick practise of 'finning' the sharks (catching them, cutting off all their fins and throwing the still living but immobilised shark into the sea). Mmm... better stop before I launch myself into a 'save the shark' carreer.

Not to mention the deep sea fishing. Where they send down a line with multiple hooks on it with bait on them, and they catch all sorts of different kinds of sea creatures, most of which they can't use because it's the wrong type for them to handle.

Originally posted by Eärniel
It was interesting to read, Lief. Very special. You seem to know a thing or two about sharks. I was pleasantly surprised to read about the shark twisting into threathening poses. That's something I only learned about them very recently.

The mesh was a sad but very realistic end.

What was the giant 'lob' he encountered? A whale shark?

It was a whale. It could have been a whale shark, but I was primarily just thinking a whale. The first lob, but there were others that the shark met later on, so it was forced to keep that memory. Poor conceited creature .

[Earniel]

Originally posted by Aralyn
Yeah you'll get ME started. You see save the whales and dolphins and cute furry anamils but save the sharks? Oh no!!

Not every creature can be cute and furry. In the end there are only a few of the bigger species of sharks that are dangerous to humans. Though most people tend to forget that and only think about their shiny teeth. Sharks are after all the biggest predatory fish in the seas. Therefore they are very important to the system. And they're very succesful too. Sharks go back waaaay before humans even existed. *decides to stop lecture here*

Originally posted by Lief Erikson
It was a whale. It could have been a whale shark, but I was primarily just thinking a whale. The first lob, but there were others that the shark met later on, so it was forced to keep that memory. Poor conceited creature .

A whale would have been my second guess. I assumed since the shark thought 'I'm the smaller fish here' that the big lob was also a fish. And the biggest fish I could remember was the whale shark. In any case meeting seeing this big lob must have been a blow to the shark's pride.