shark teeth for sale
Submitted by Versus on Thu, 2012-11-22 10:20
While bored waiting for my missus buying crap in a beading shop, I noticed these shark teeth being sold to make jewellery etc. Asked shop lady where they're from, Indonesia was the reply.
Is this a bad thing? I dunno. They're all pretty bloody small. Though i guess, the sharks they came from would've been killed anyway for meat so they may aswell make a few extra cents off the teeth? There was also heaps of shells, I imagine also from Indo, all the spirally types. I don't think its a great idea to encourage taking shells and things.
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catchalittle
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is that that bead shop in
is that that bead shop in Freo near the carpark
Nathan
Versus
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yup
yup
bronzey92
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yeh i seen them there aswel
the one in the bottom right looks similar to a tiger sharks tooth, and top left looks kinda like a grey nurse or some sort of shark that needs to hold its prety like a wobbygong, but who knows!
Spence
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Jordan496
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the top right one almost
the top right one almost looks like a gw tooth that i have
carnarvonite
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Teeth
Top left is either a grey nurse or mako, top right is a whaler and both bottom teeth are tiger
Versus
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well, I was kinda just
well, I was kinda just thinking out loud on the ethics of promoting the sale of shark teeth and seashells that are coming from an area that uses unsustainable practices etc (I think).
carnarvonite
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Sizes
From the sizes of the teeth displayed , they could come from legally caught sharks here in WA.
mejutty
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Well at least they are not
Well at least they are not just cutting fins off and kicking over the side at least they use 1 more part.