Shark fishing in the Arabian Sea Bashny.Net

Strong foreman comes out of the hold of the vessel and the fishing of sharks raises the deck. Among them there are hammerhead shark, silky shark and thresher shark. Small sharks spreads to another boat, and large and worthy copies, such as tiger sharks or roundnose, fixed on the huge hooks and dragging on the concrete slab. It was here in the evening will be auctioned. Sharks 'line up' in a number of fins upward, resembling a military cemetery. On the stove is located about 98 sharks. It catches only one vessel overnight. After the auction was held, and were offered high prices, the shark immersed in special trucks refrigerator. Then after a few minutes the solution next boat, which is discharged from a new batch of sharks and lay them on a plate. Thus, per night sold about 1,000 sharks.
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Shark fins are a valuable ingredient in shark fin soup. This is a real delicacy in the Far East. Trade in sharks and shark fins has been ongoing for over 10 years. However Arabia has never been famous mainly shark region. More recently, the region has become a major trading place sharks and one of the leading suppliers of sharks in the world.
The biggest catch of the recently was recorded in Oman. Every night the trucks with freezer filled shark fins and they race through the desert along the Persian Gulf in Dubai, where the nightly auctions. Currently, Dubai is the epicenter of the global trade in shark fins and one of the five cities that export shark fins to Hong Kong.

Divers examined the bottom of the Arabian Sea along and across and confirmed the fact that the catch of sharks being really, even in some marine reserves. To catch sharks using gillnets, which are banned in most countries, as they not only hinder the free movement of sharks, but also threaten the existence and lead to the extinction of sea turtles and whales. Some fishermen have expressed concern about the sharp decline in the number of sharks.

Today in Arabia shark population is close to extinction. Still, many are pinning their hopes on the environmentalists who will do their best for the benefit of the existence of sharks. Maybe worth Arabia retrain and become instead a leading global provider of shark fins main areas of conservation of sharks?

1. Huge silky shark is moving the camera the photographer.

2. Docker throws toothed shark from fishing boats. Despite the fact that this and many other species of sharks are endangered, they are still caught in huge quantities in Arab ports.