Free the shark already...

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050310/ap_on_sc/captive_shark_1

It was cool to see the shark up close, but I really think they should let this one go already.

>"They really have huge travel migration routes. This type of animal typically travels 50 miles in a day," said Sean Van Sommeran, executive director of the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation in Santa Cruz.

Like the tunas in that tank don't do the same in the wild?

>Van Sommeran said the million-gallon tank where the shark lives "is really just a bucket. ... His nose is raw from repeated contact with the barrier walls.
>"This animal is injured and becoming agitated," he said.

The shark's nose is actually healing, it looks better now than when I saw it a few months ago.

What makes this fish so special compared to the others at the aquarium?  That it'd have a 10% chance of killing/maiming someone in the wild?

I agree Kevin    Althought I have not seen it yet - I'd rather see it alive and well in the ocean then dead in the aquarium.....

Keep the shark.

It is like any other pelagic fish they have in the pelagic tank.

(sides, I haven't seen it yet)

MolBasser

"He said the aquarium has had 700,000 visitors come see the shark display"

With that many people paying to see it, that shark will never get released.  My guess is that they'll keep it just long enough for them to declare it "not fit" for survival in the wild and let it live the rest of its short existence in a fish bowl while they count their cash.

I say have mount it!  Its the perfect size for my office.  Better yet I could put it on top of our van like one of those exterminator vans

Seriously though, I think its attacking other things because thats its place in nature.  As it grows and gets stronger, it will continue to go for other things.  Shark eats shark is hardly news.  Nobody's crying about all of the other fish the fish eat everyday at the aquarium.

If they do let it go, they should let it go near Linda Mar.

Lake Mendo would be a better place.

Ken Kickfish

If they do let it go, they should let it go near Linda Mar.

...there's a new sign up at Linda Mar saying "Sharks are OFF LIMITS"  

>I'd rather see it alive and well in the ocean then dead in the aquarium.....

Alrighty then, you can rub my kayak with a banana, and I'll rub yours with seal livers.  Then you get to see one without paying $18.  Oh, hold onto this 18/0 hook BTW...   Topwater action!  

Maybe the banana and the livers would cancel eachother out tho...

banana and liver.......sounds like the birth of a new Filipino dish  

Wrap em up in a egg roll wrapper, roll it in sugar and deep fry the baby.