sea turtle wanted , small and stuffed! - Collecting Tiki

R Rattiki Member Key West, FL Joined: May 03, 2003 Posts: 422	R Rattiki Posted posted on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 6:32 PM OK for what it's worth. Sea turtles of all species (as far as I know) have been on the endangered list for decades. They used to hunt them here in the FL Keys in mass 50+ years ago to almost extinction. I even ran a busy, harbor side restaurant's kitchen called the Turtle Kraals that was once a turtle pen and slaughter house here for them. So wanting a newly killed sea turtle, such as I saw in VN, is YES distasteful at best. Believe me I had a few polite, but direct words with the vendors there about it (as if they care what some goofy westerner thinks as long as the rich Chinese still buy them!). Meanwhile it is now the norm (but not the law) to tag and release billfish since they are the predators (or lions) of the sea and also are not popular to eat (unlike swordfish, still a billfish and predator, which is NOT generally released, but eaten ALL the time everywhere and probably by some of you!). When the good sports fisher person (and a good one only keeps what he'll eat, and that is RARE as the mate can sell the fish to restaurants for $$$) he can, for a large sum $$$ have a faxsmile of his fish made for him in plastic. On the other hand an antique is OK as it is from a more innocent age and is NOT adding to the destruction of the present day wild life. Which BTW eating ANY wild fish (not farm raised) such as tuna, mahi mahi, halibut and the like IS destroying the WILDLIFE and ecosystems of the sea, so stick that in you tofu shoe and beat it :P Also to add more fuel to the fire, if you all didn't already know, many animals that were once endangered are NO LONGER, and have been taken off the list of endangered species. AND since there is now a chance of the animals starving to death (due to the lack of their natural predators). They are even culled, with the skins etc. sold for profit, and the profits used to maintain their existing wildlife habitats. So you can go on camera safari in say Africa and see them as I did. This I noticed recently was (I believe they were once endangered) the case with Zebra skins. A very cool item for one's Tiki bar. =-O OHH!! HOW TERRIBLE!!! twowheelin'tiki & Trader Woody please stop acting like a couple of wankers and be nice. :wink: I am sure this is just a bit of ignorance and/or misunderstanding. PolynesianPop where did you see/get the faux turtle, and where was it made originally?

OK for what it's worth. Sea turtles of all species (as far as I know) have been on the endangered list for decades. They used to hunt them here in the FL Keys in mass 50+ years ago to almost extinction. I even ran a busy, harbor side restaurant's kitchen called the Turtle Kraals that was once a turtle pen and slaughter house here for them. So wanting a newly killed sea turtle, such as I saw in VN, is YES distasteful at best. Believe me I had a few polite, but direct words with the vendors there about it (as if they care what some goofy westerner thinks as long as the rich Chinese still buy them!). Meanwhile it is now the norm (but not the law) to tag and release billfish since they are the predators (or lions) of the sea and also are not popular to eat (unlike swordfish, still a billfish and predator, which is NOT generally released, but eaten ALL the time everywhere and probably by some of you!). When the good sports fisher person (and a good one only keeps what he'll eat, and that is RARE as the mate can sell the fish to restaurants for $$$) he can, for a large sum $$$ have a faxsmile of his fish made for him in plastic.

On the other hand an antique is OK as it is from a more innocent age and is NOT adding to the destruction of the present day wild life. Which BTW eating ANY wild fish (not farm raised) such as tuna, mahi mahi, halibut and the like IS destroying the WILDLIFE and ecosystems of the sea, so stick that in you tofu shoe and beat it :P

Also to add more fuel to the fire, if you all didn't already know, many animals that were once endangered are NO LONGER, and have been taken off the list of endangered species. AND since there is now a chance of the animals starving to death (due to the lack of their natural predators). They are even culled, with the skins etc. sold for profit, and the profits used to maintain their existing wildlife habitats. So you can go on camera safari in say Africa and see them as I did. This I noticed recently was (I believe they were once endangered) the case with Zebra skins. A very cool item for one's Tiki bar. =-O OHH!! HOW TERRIBLE!!!

twowheelin'tiki & Trader Woody please stop acting like a couple of wankers and be nice. :wink: I am sure this is just a bit of ignorance and/or misunderstanding.

PolynesianPop where did you see/get the faux turtle, and where was it made originally?

Post #39525 by Rattiki on Mon, Jun 16, 2003 6:32 PM