Doin' Costa Rica: Shark Finning ALIVE and WELL in Costa Rica

Thursday, January 6, 2011

Shark Finning ALIVE and WELL in Costa Rica

Shark finning and Costa Rica are synonymous.
Costa Rica and shark finning, shark finning and Costa Rica... whenever someone mentions shark finning, Costa Rica's name is not far behind... that is NOT a good thing in case you don't know.

Gringo price me, tico time me, pass me on a curve, lose my paperwork, shake me down for money.... but STOP the shark finning DAMN IT!

Shark finning is back in the NEWS. And guess what? It hasn't changed a bit. Laws to protect against shark finning get circumvented or ignored by the powers that be and believe me, it's definitely a calculated move by the Costa Rican government.

Obviously it's about the money and keeping the Asians HAPPY. I mean, they built us a stadium, gave us police cars, bikes, soccer balls, surely they can continue to cut the fins off helpless sharks in order to continue their fucked up tradition of eating shark fin soup. Seems pretty quid pro quo. The irony, shark fin soup tastes like 'nothing'. So thousands of sharks die for 'nothing'.

Of all our videos, I wish this one had the most HITS. It's one of the first videos we ever did, I got a chance to talk to Randall Arauz, President of Pretoma, the folks that help the sharks and sea turtles. It explains the situation fairly succinctly. Please help get the WORD out, embed this video where ever you can. The sharks will thank you for it.

ALL the info in this video is still pertinent... unfortunately.
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expatcostarica 44p · 742 weeks ago

Great article. Unfortunately this is tremendous demand for this product in Asia, a black market problem perhaps as strong as the drug trade.

There are now more middle class consumers in Asia than Europe and North America combined. So, there is alot of money behind it.

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Hubertus · 742 weeks ago

Hi Michael,
Thank you for your information, hope a lot of people read it and publish these very bad situation all over the world. At the moment I'm stay in CR and note in the newspaper that they plan to build a new marina at the Isla Moin (Limon) for 500 Billion Dollars. This will be the next natural desaster due to the waste, oil, noise of motors and lights in the night for turtles, dolphins, sea cows...

Regards,
Hubertus

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michael_alan 33p · 742 weeks ago

Unfortunately......you are right. I just wonder what has to happen before we wake the FUCK up.

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Costa Rica · 730 weeks ago

It is unfortunate that this is happening in Costa Rica but on the bright side the Govt is taking measures and apparently constantly blocking Asian boats taking advantage of our biodiversity.

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michael alan · 730 weeks ago

I wish what you said was true, but unfortunately it is not. The Costa Rican government is the biggest part of the problem. Believe me, the new stadium built by the Chinese was not free, if you know what I mean.