I had an opportunity to visit McCormick and Schmick’s sea food restaurant in Town and Country, (Houston) and discovered that they are serving Mako Shark on the lunch menu. Don’t eat sharks. First of all, the shark meat often contains high levels of mercury because they are at the top of the food chain. And it’s just plain bad news… Read more »
The ocean, for most, represents a great blue void. It is sometimes hard to imagine that an incredible world, much larger than the space terrestrial beings inhabit, lies beyond the shoreline and below the surface. The Censes of Marine Life, completed in 2010 by 2,700 scientists from 80 countries, identified more than 1 million species that call the ocean home. … Read more »
Used as a tasteless thickener in soup and an inconclusive cure all in Ancient Chinese Medicine, shark fin, or more specifically shark finning, claims the lives of more than 70 million sharks annually. Think about that number for a moment; more than 70 million sharks. Portrayed as mindless, blood-thirsty killers in Peter Benchley’s novel Jaws, sharks are persecuted not on… Read more »