Interesting article.......

http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2006-07-12/news/feature.html

personally I dont mind the fishing part of it just the selling of it but I hate sharks anyway.

Hmmm...I'm all for freedom of religion & all, but poaching is poaching. And I don't understand how a religion that is supposed to be about an "ocean church" can justify the wholesale plundering of an oceanic resource. Does not compute. Of course a conservative agenda church that trolls liberal campuses for recruits by using selective omission of their intent seems right along those lines.
I consider the ocean to be my church and I'm more than a little offended by the stance taken by these people. Poachers=one of the lowest forms of humanity IMHO.
My apologies to any that I may have offended here, but like I said, the guy in the article is a poacher, period.

agreed - definitely a criminal that needs to be punished 

I think Leopard Sharks are the most beautiful sharks out there 

I think the idea is good kind of a youth fishing program or something of that sort but it seems to me this loser took it too far.

I dont want to drag this into a religion debate but many of the apostles were fisherman and the lord say's in genises watch the sea otter and do what he does.  fishing is good for the fun heart and soul.
 
 I think this priest low life should have a gamatsu stuck through his lip and towed behind a coast guard cutter