Earlier in February, a small Franciscana dolphin was killed after a man plucked it from the ocean in Argentina, and eager tourists handled the animal to take selfies until it died.
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Australian conservationist Amanda Banks said the brief beach-wrestle could have caused fatal stress levels for the shark.
Disgraceful footage showing a man dragging a stranded shark out of water pose for a photograph has gone viral.
It is then placed deeper into the waster but “it did not resurface for several minutes”, journalist Ashleigh Walters, who captured the incident and uploaded it onto Facebook, said. Its fate was not known. The man-bun-sporting beachgoer can be seen pulling the shark from the water, and dragging it to shore. The mania for taking selfies and making photos to be shared on social media isn’t ending yet.
Because of the callousness of this incident, one might think of this event as an isolated one, fueled by a sort of mob mentality and misguided excitement over seeing a rare animal. Rather skittish creatures, however, they are more likely to take off when humans are in the water, experts say.
“I’m always confused about the uproar when people bring a shark out of the water”.
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Fishing for sharks from the shore is allowed in Florida, but you’re not allowed to fish in between the guarded signs at any beach in Palm Beach County. Video shared by one of the station’s reporters has been viewed almost 350,000 times and has garnered hundreds of comments, many of them expressing outrage. “When fully grown, bull sharks reach 7 to 11 feet in length and weigh between 200 and 300 pounds”. The video shows that man holding the shark against the sand while his friends immortalize the moment. There are about 25 shark species, including the Atlantic angel and scalloped hammerhead shark, that can not be harvested.
