Shark Death: A Waste of Life

There is now a petition to convince Sailfish Marina to become a shark free marina! Please send it out to everyone as soon as possible!. http://www.petitiononline.com/shark333/petition.html

This one very sad story, I have a 12 year old boy who is diving with Scuba Rangers and a 7 year old girl who cant wait to get in the water with a tank rather than a snorkel and if this continues there is no hope for any of our children seeing sharks in the their natural environment.

is any of you from the area where the fish was caught?Where Capt Krohn works?
am looking to donate the book Man and shark to a library where hopefully the planted seed will educate more people

Endangered not formaly yet but shark people know, and dead. This female represent future generation lost.

Everything resumes to pure ignorance and lack of information... Also Hollywood has made it's contribution to exacerbate the taboo!

Such a horrible, senseless crime!

Maybe marinas and "sport fishermen" should go in for trophy photographs instead. You make more money out of a live shark than a dead shark and it's better for the oceans.

Captain Krohn said today, "it was a trophy catch, so everything is fine...". He then said the trophy was for a 16 year old boy.
These kids need education by experience. Let's take the boy diving with hammerheads, and then ask him what he'd rather have as a trophy...a dead shark?...or the incredible experience of being in the water with one?
Let's start teaching!

This is so sad and these animals are endangered! To many of us, this is like killing your pets! Our world needs more education on shark conservation and the need for sharks in our oceans! One day stupid and uneducated will figure it out but will it be too late?

I hear a lot of talk about the protection of human rights
but very little about the human responsibility
to keep this world viable

Do wish people would have better respect for and understanding of the real world that is around them. I mean for the oceans, forests, mountains etc... We must take responsibility for our actions and think about the repercussions that will follow. Sad that most people are self-centered to the point, they only care about what is within their small bubble, and will get upset when their comfort zone is challenged. Even if the source is something they did or contributed to.

If the sharks die, the ocean dies and if that happens we will follow! They are the top predator.

We will keep spreading the word! Sharks Rock!

Good Luck with this Jim, the community is behind you and always will be, just how to get to the wider community, but with the social networking machine doing its best, you're on the right track.

Humans need to wake up and realize that we NEED sharks! They sure don't need humans!

Knowledge leads to Understanding and will turn fear into fascination. We need to educate the public about the important role sharks play in the ocean. Without sharks there won't be a healthy ocean and without a healthy ocean we cannot live, because that's where most of our oxygen comes from.

human kind are the worst kind

It's unbelievable!

Heroic? ... Just a freaking nonsense murder...

I am sick of these ignorant people taking nature for granted and treated animals this way--especially sharks, who've been around for millions of years and are on the brink of extinction. There is nothing "sporty" about sport fishing. Nothing. There is nothing but pain, cruelty and waste of a life that wanted to live as much as the human, all for greed or vanity. I'm a vegan and don't eat any animals, but I consider sport fishing and especially "trophy" hunting to be a particularly cowardly form of entertainment. It's sad that these activities make these losers actually feel like they've accomplished something.

its kinda silly how so many folks go about their days never even thinking about whats going on outside their little fantasy world... you got these stupid shows about the "jersey shore" and vampires; we spend money and time on that crap but cant seem to keep really self absorbed people from fishin out the waters... and yea one day the poop will hit the fan - i'll have to say "we all told yas so"

It's a disgrace. Thankyou for making this known. Hopefully this shark's death will stop the unnecessary death of others like her.

an amazing response to one shark's death.I hope the public reaction will get Capt John Krohn to rethink his job.

Here's the thing about CITES vs the IUCN Red List: This past March in Qatar "The hammerhead proposal was defeated in a vote of 75 in favor, 45 opposed and 14 abstentions. Votes were done by secret ballot. A two-thirds majority is needed for the adoption of a proposal."

I read an interview with a marine biology prof. in Florida who said that many Hammerhead sharks tend to die after release due to overexertion from fighting the line.

I do not see how Florida Fish & Wildlife can allow people to take Hammerhead sharks if they've been listed as endangered with CITES...

La gente ignorante y maldita que hizo esto deberian usarlos de carnada o como comida para peces!!!

Frankly I do not believe in sport fishing. What the heck sport is it to catch a beautiful creature of the sea? Even if you do release it it has had damage done to it and it could perish anyway. I am also leery of any sport fisherman speaking for the saving of any fish species. I do not think catching such beautiful creatures is a sport! Go play baseball for crying out loud. Stop killing!

Such a waste! People need to be educated!

I hope nobody actually believes the fool that did this is going to eat the shark! It has been sitting in the sun and rotting for how long?? We are fishing out our oceans so frankly I don't like any fishing.Blue Fin Tuna is going to disappear then what, it goes on and on. You can't keep killing one species without damage to yet another. Do we only pay attention when it is to LATE?? Tell me please just how Florida plans to enforce the law of eating what you catch! That is just plain stupid and I am not one to be fooled by such lame laws!

Healthy oceans means healthy us. Destroy the gifts we have been given, whether from stupidity or greed, destroy life as we know it.

-There is no help for most adult humans to understand that destruction like this is wrong --Unfortunately those children were already coorrupted by the adults who got in their heads first..But..usually..children are more compassionate than (most) adults.. Don't you think all shark fishing and sport fishing/hunting issues should be started in classes? ..Even if parents could talk and explain these issues on a volunteer basis..
I don't know.. Education at ground zero ....
Plus extreme ...severe fines for the creeps who commit crimes such as this one..

let me know if you find out.Would love to have them stuff this whale down the guys throat or at the very least, have the woman ID'ed when she claims it.Regardless,someone must be made to pay for this needless death.

George,according the video, the law in Florida says that you catch it,you eat it OR release it.How is it this guy got away without having to eat it?

if anyone's following this story thru,let me know if the guy who caught it will eat it or be charged under Florida law

I can imagine 2 dumb humans calling a shark murderer a hero. What have we come to? If we don't change the minds of our children we will loose the battle. The sharks die we die!!

Dumb creatures, and I dont mean the sharks!

Disgusting and unacceptably cruel behaviour, if you want something for your wall, hang your bloody self on it!

Sick bastards!!

So sad to see such a beautiful animal wasted by human stupidity. again ...
If mankind ever succeeds in exterminating itself (most likely this is question of "when" rather than "if"), and provided it does so timely, that will be a blessing for all other creatures on the face of this earth ...

hey Stevens, will remember to give you a shout when put our grass roots action together for this fall.Ordinary folk, makin noise, demanding change so that state and federal legislations will protect species better.

The Scaloped Hammerhead is my favorite,YOU BASTARDS this is murder and should be prosecuted as such, when a person kills a shark its just like killing a part of the ocean. we as a society need to protect our Oceans and our wildlife if not us who wil step up. Sharks are a very important part of our Oceans ECOSYSTEMS. STOP THE KILLING

This is the type of stupidity that will see endless species driven into extinction and ranks right up there with stupid who has a tiger skin for a rug.Florida laws need to change so that Floridians dont become unwitting accomplices to animal extinctions.

Idiotic and ignorent people ! What if i would kill that woman and hang her up on mywall ? I would go to jail....And the regulations in Florida suck.Stricter and more security needed here

I think a "Hall of Shame" is a great idea, showing those who kill for fun and "sport".

Absolutely disgusting - the 'captain' should be charged, fined or at the very least permanently banned from that marina.

What a terrible, terrible waste ....... this is so tragic.

Since the name of the vessel and it's captain is known, could we not start and publish a list of offenders? Maybe when their bottom line is diminished they will get the point that not only we should not aid in the extinction of such majestic animals, but that they can bring more financial rewards alive (as a tourist attraction) than dead? The nearsightedness and greed of most never ceases to amaze me.

unfortunately, there are really stupid folks out there, too many..."who's the hero who killed this??".. someone missed biology class. WE RISK DESTROYING OURSELVES??? we are already, you can see it clearly in this case with big fat Capt. Ahab snatching critters from the blue. Do me a favor woman, take a nice long walk off that dock.

what a waste off a endangerd animal that is so important to keep the ecosystem in balance in our oceans its even worse that this scalloped hammerhead was a female and could have been pregnent which has an even greater impact on the dwindling numbers off hammerheads that are left fighting for survival

This was a waste, a killing of an animal that plays a critical role in maintaining the health of the ocean ecosystem -- the life support system of our planet, and ourselves

This is truly a needless killing, which shows ignorance and disrespect of those who still kill sharks. Sharks are too important in the ocean to be killed for the fun of it or for a photo.

What we do to the planet, we do to ourselves.

Scalloped hammerhead sharks are included in the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and listed as "Endangered". The status given to these sharks is a result of over-fishing and the demand for their fins.

Males reach sexual maturity when they are 10 years old, the females only after 15-16 years and only 15-30 puppies are born after a gestation of a whole year! After giving birth, a mother Scalloped Hammerhead needs to take a year off between pregnancies to re-build her energy stores.

I hope this clarifies why this is truly a scandalous waiste! These sharks are essential to maintain a healthy ecosystem in the oceans. They regulate the species below them, and ensure healthy gene pools as they feed on the old, and sick fish.

When sharks are gone from the oceans, it will have an effect on all species in the sea, right down to the phytoplankton. This phytoplankton provides 70% of the oxigen that we breath.

The ocean and the animals in it are our lifeline. Destroying it means destroying ourselves!

For everyone who watches this video, please also post your thoughts here. When enough well mannered and honest public reaction results from such a needless act then potentially people who can make a difference can be urged into doing so. I'm talking about the law makers, law enforcement and other decent folk who can act to make sure it doesn't happen again. Cheers, Mark.