Florida’s sport fishing community is outraged over video that shows a shark, tied to the back of the boat, being dragged at high speed.
The video was posted on a number of social media sites overnight and has thousands of views, drawing mostly negative backlash from the Florida sport fishing community.
WESH 2 News has also obtained a related photo, which we are not showing due to its extremely graphic nature. The photo shows what appears to be the same shark ripped to pieces and being held by two men whose faces are not shown in the photo.
In an email, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission spokesman Robert Klepper said, “The FWC has been alerted to a video circulating on multiple social media sites showing a group of individuals traveling at high speed on the water (while) dragging a shark behind the vessel.”
Laker, so you are now comparing a predator hunting to people abusing animals? Its one thing to fish for sharks but this just shows how little respect most people have for anything but themselves.
