The internet celebrity blogger "Tizi" filmed a video of boiled sharks and barbecue sharks, and was discovered by popular science bloggers that the sharks in the video are internationally endangered wild animals "man-eating sharks", which are national second-level protected animals. Nanchong police have identified that the shark in the video involved is indeed a man-eating shark (also known as a great white shark), and the relevant cases are currently being further handled.
The Department of The Nanchong Municipal Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Affairs also said that the Internet celebrity "Tizi" purchased the "Great White Shark" from the Internet, the source is the coastal area of Fujian, and the relevant personnel have been controlled by the police, "We are contacting the relevant judicial testing department to detect whether the great white shark is a juvenile or an adult, and assess its value, which involves the final case result." ”
This is really rubbing traffic for Bo eyeballs, killing yourself. This kind of network clown who uses cooking "mountain treasures and seafood" to stimulate traffic has been eliminated with the clear network action, and has also given many Internet celebrity bloggers a wake-up call: don't take the lower limit of the partial front show, in order to withstand the test.
After the incident, it also gave us an opportunity to pay attention to the current situation of the endangered great white shark:
Due to the slow rate of fertility of sharks, populations have been unable to recover, resulting in a sharp decline in populations worldwide. According to the researchers' estimates, the number of great white sharks worldwide is less than 3,000, which is even smaller than the number of wild tigers. But this is also inseparable from human behavior.
Thousands of people living by the sea see sharks as a low-priced source of protein. Sharks are usually finned after being caught and thrown back into the sea while the remnants are still alive. Shark products trade: shark fins, fish meat, fish livers and other parts are sold as food and fitness and beauty products, the most common of which is shark fin soup, which costs $564 per kilogram, and as many as 125 countries participate in the shark products trade, and the United States and Mexico alone, which caught as many as 100,000 tons of sharks in 1944, are regarded as the world's two top shark fishing countries.
Studies have shown that nearly 100 million sharks are hunted each year today, and great white shark populations are currently facing a crisis due to human overfishing, for example, the number of great white sharks on the Atlantic coast of the United States has decreased by more than 75% in the past 20 years, and its main "culprit" is commercial hunting.
Ninety-eight percent of sharks caught are killed to take their fins and flesh to cope with the huge increase in demand for shark fin soup. The weight of the fins is only one to five percent of the entire shark body, and the remaining ninety-five to ninety-nine percent are discarded.
Great white sharks are at the top of the marine food chain, very few other organisms can pose a threat to it, in addition to humans, the only creatures that can kill great white sharks are killer whales (also known as orcas), which are the top predators in the ocean and great white sharks.
In the gulf of Ecuador in South America, a fisherman cuts shark fins
It can be seen that human overfishing is the main reason why the great white shark is endangered, so in recent years many countries have taken action to protect and restrict the trade of their goods with laws. Like what:
- Australian law states that great white sharks are protected animals, and residents who deliberately fish, injure, and sell great white sharks are punishable by a maximum fine of $100,000 or 2 years in prison.
- In China, the great white shark is listed as a national second-class protected animal. Whoever illegally hunts or kills rare or endangered wild animals under key national protection, or illegally acquires, transports or sells rare or endangered wild animals under key national protection and their products, shall, in accordance with the provisions of the Mainland Criminal Law, be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years; If the circumstances are serious, he shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than five years but not more than ten years.