http://www.snopes.com/critters/crusader/sharkbait.asp
According to Snope it is a very small group of amateur fishermen using dead animals.
Stop BP from destroying fisheries worldwide.
With 606 oilfields, the Niger delta supplies 40% of all the crude the United States imports and is the world capital of oil pollution. Life expectancy in its rural communities, half of which have no access to clean water, has fallen to little more than 40 years over the past two generations. Locals blame the oil that pollutes their land and can scarcely believe the contrast with the steps taken by BP and the US government to try to stop the Gulf oil leak and to protect the Louisiana shoreline from pollution.
"If this Gulf accident had happened in Nigeria, neither the government nor the company would have paid much attention," said the writer Ben Ikari, a member of the Ogoni people. "This kind of spill happens all the time in the delta."
Stop BP from destroying fisheries worldwide.
why?
I find it funny that some animals you want to protect from being bait, yet I bet you have no problem with other animals being used for such purposes.
You are ok with using live cats and dogs? Is that how they treat dogs in Colorado? It doesn't matter anyway as it turns out to be mostly bullshit.
Because only the mention of BP causes your panties to wad up just so.Why aren't you railing against Chevron and Shell? Why don't you ask Daily Kos or the Darlak what you ought to say on the subject?
http://www.usatoday.com/money/story...ion-fine-for-rain-forest-pollution/52417544/1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/30/oil-spills-nigeria-niger-delta-shell
Because only the mention of BP causes your panties to wad up just so.
How about those radioactive bluefin tuna?