{"id":6310,"date":"2012-04-26T09:57:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-26T13:57:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=6310"},"modified":"2012-04-26T10:34:18","modified_gmt":"2012-04-26T14:34:18","slug":"stop-the-sale-of-shark-in-a-bottle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?p=6310","title":{"rendered":"Stop the sale of Shark in a bottle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?attachment_id=6323\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6323\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6323\" title=\"261581_10150210529156045_125700991044_7359290_2791535_n\" src=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/261581_10150210529156045_125700991044_7359290_2791535_n-250x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/261581_10150210529156045_125700991044_7359290_2791535_n-250x187.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/261581_10150210529156045_125700991044_7359290_2791535_n-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/261581_10150210529156045_125700991044_7359290_2791535_n.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It has just come to our attention, <strong>sharks are being sold in a bottle<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not a new thing from what we are finding. Yet today, after growing in knowledge and understanding of the need to protect what we humans feel we may neglect, it is imperative that we voice our objection to the commercialization and industrialization through proliferation of a species to its extinction.<\/p>\n<p>Here is one example: \u00a0\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/S-875-Real-Dog-SHARK-Embryo-in-a-bottle-jar-Educational-Science-baby-sharks-\/390397911424?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&amp;amp;hash=item5ae5876180#ht_536wt_716\" target=\"_blank\">eBay<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/?attachment_id=6326\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6326\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6326\" title=\"$(KGrHqZ,!ogE8VgwsrK6BPW!glP(D!~~60_3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KGrHqZogE8VgwsrK6BPWglPD60_3-187x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KGrHqZogE8VgwsrK6BPWglPD60_3-187x250.jpg 187w, https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KGrHqZogE8VgwsrK6BPWglPD60_3-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.divetalking.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/KGrHqZogE8VgwsrK6BPWglPD60_3.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please do not let this happen, ANYWHERE.<\/p>\n<p>Contact eBay and request that all such items are to be banned.<\/p>\n<p>If you feel any U.S. company is in violation of U.S. Laws or International treaties, please contact\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbp.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Customs<\/a> Department and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Fish and Wildlife <\/a>Department. \u00a0You may find rules and regulations of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cites.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">CITES <\/a>International Agreement at their website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has just come to our attention, sharks are being sold in a bottle.<br \/>\nThis is not a new thing from what we are finding. Yet today, after growing in knowledge and understanding of the need to protect what we humans feel we may neglect, it is imperative that we voice our objection to the commercialization and industrialization through proliferation of a species to its extinction.<br \/>\nHere is one example: \u00a0\u00a0eBay<\/p>\n<p>Please do not let this happen, ANYWHERE.<br \/>\nContact eBay and request that all such items are to be banned.<br \/>\nIf you feel any U.S. company is in violation of U.S. Laws or International treaties, please contact\u00a0the U.S. Customs Department and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department. \u00a0You may find rules and regulations of the CITES International Agreement at their website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6323,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138,90,40,45,92,82,11,31,84,48],"tags":[149,535,148],"class_list":["post-6310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alert","category-earth","category-featured","category-fish","category-indonesia","category-ocean","category-reefs","category-report","category-rescue","category-sharks","tag-embryo","tag-sharks","tag-sharks-in-a-bottle"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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