The Godfather comes to Jervis Bay!
A fishing contest at Jervis Bay, a town famous for its pretty white sand beach a few hours south of Sydney, has ended with a local activist’s car being graffitied and decorated with the head of a decapitated Tiger shark.
“The White Sands Fishing Competition, which included both the tag and release and capture categories for sharks, saw a tiger and a mako killed, weighed, and beheaded on Saturday. With their carcasses abandoned in the sea, one of the shark heads was kept for taxidermy while the other was dumped on a car owned by a local diving company. The vehicle was also graffitied after a protest video showing the tiger shark being weighed was posted online,” according to ABC News.
The car belongs to Jervis Bay freediving outfit Woe Be Gone, whose environmental bona fides are solid and in stark contrast to the kill-and-dump ethos of competing fishermen.
From the Woe Be Gone site, “Beware greenwashing. We don’t serve animal products on our boats. We have a strict ‘no touch and no harassment’ policy. Interactions between us and the creatures of the sea are only ever on their terms.”
“Destruction of property. Vandalism. Dismemberment of a wild animal. Lots of ways to describe the act,” writes another shark conservationist Madison Stewart, “A small local business @woebegone_freedive came back to their car to find this and some damage done, after posting about a legal and public fishing tournament occurring in Jervis Bay, Australia. If the individuals engaging in these compeitions are so confident about their actions, catch and sponsors, then why feel the need to react in such a way? Perhaps it’s the fact that bringing awareness to these competitions reveals how much of the public is apposed to them. This is not the first or only vandalism i’ve seen at the hands of fishermen in reaction to nothing more then their actions being made public. Yet we are always labeled the radical ones. Above all… this act is very revealing that there are individuals being deeply effected by the attention being brought to them.”
The Jervis Bay Game Fishing Club, which ran the event, said they didn’t condone the action but, well, shark fishing is legal, so what can you do?
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Pig parking Prius with a shark head on the bonnet in a regional coastal car park. Seems about right
Catch, kill, and dump in sea going on in Jervis Bay? Rasta and co could’ve saved themselves shitloads of money, stress and time by just taking a leisurely drive south instead of flying to Japan and hiding in bushes to protest the dolphin kill. Carbon footprint etc…
They need to look into every member of the organization she belongs to; I wouldn’t be surprised if they did it themselves to bring more “awareness”.
I’d hide the ‘womens’ video too.
They just surf so much like—girls.
Moana was getting well pitted to emasculate most men? But not you?
Ha, competition in surfing is fruitless, it proves nothing.
Aren’t you some kind of writer you retarded cunt.
Writer?
I think that’s Matt you’re thinking of.
That’s a terrible waste of good meat.
Can we leave a ‘sharks-head’ on the Wsl’s door step?
They just seem like they deserve it.
Recent studies in Aus and NZ of DNA found in the faecal matter of Leopard seals have proven that they eat some species of sharks.
Therefore it stands to reason that it was a Leopard seal who killed and ate the shark, then left it’s head on the car that was in the seals designated spot.
It’s a well-known fact they enjoy spending time in carparks, as is evidenced by this recent photograph of a Leopard seal sunbathing in a yacht club carpark in New Zealand’s South Island… https://uploads.disquscdn.c…
I wonder what she did next?…set up a shrine and try and immortalise it or just chuck it in the closest bin.
Onshore 2foot Balito pro in high def not enuff for ya?
I don’t think Im Australian enough to understand what the fuck is going on here
Colonial throwback
Drink more cans cunty. It”ll appear.
Sage advice. I’ll re-read after I’ve smashed a flat of tinnies like a mongrel dog
Haha, you getting there, look at you havin a go. Bloody good onya.
maybe like 3 Foster’s oil cans? if you drink the ones in the green cans, you will be so blotto my friend
“deeply effected” or “deeply affected”, paging BM.
Righto Ben…
If you believe in amakua, somebody is in for a rough future here. If not, not.
Sharkma
Sharkma Sharkmeleon
Sharka bra!
Sharquille o’neal aka The Sharq
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dismemberment /dɪsˈmɛmbəm(ə)nt/noun –
the action of cutting off a person’s or animal’s limbs.
I thought sharkgirl was wrong when I read her comment. Dismemberment relates to arms and legs. This is clearly a head
Decapitation would be more appropriate.