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Sat 06 Jun 2010Shark's fin soup has a lot to answer for
ANOTHER LIFE:JUST north of Quilty, at the southern edge of Liscannor Bay, in Co Clare, is a green-topped islet that you can reach by scrambling over the rocks at low tide. Perched upon it, the experienced shore angler, able to cast half a mackerel up to 150m, may connect with a blue shark or even a porbeagle, thereupon to battle – jaw jutting, feet spread – heedless of the tide swirling in behind him.
Such fantasies have nurtured Ireland’s growing sport-fishing industry, helped along by photographs on the charter-boat websites offering easier ways of catching deep-water sharks, and even releasing them again.
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