Toxic Sharks - EU Rapid Alerts 2011

A lot of discussion about heavy metals found in sharks and shark products for human consumption is available on the Internet.

Discovering actual EU Rapid Alerts for toxic sharks is something to pay attention to - what's in your shark meat?

Notification date: 05 July 2011.

Notification from: Italy.

Notification Description: Mercury in frozen blue shark steaks (Prionace glauca).

Origin: Portugal.

Distributed to: Italy.

Amount: 832 kg.

Analytical Result: 3,51 +/- 0,31 mg/kg – ppm

Action taken: official detention.

Notification date: 26 April 2011.

Notification from: Poland.

Notification Description: Cadmium in frozen blue shark steaks.

Origin: Spain.

Distributed to: Poland.

Analytical Result: 0.081 mg/kg – ppm.

Action taken: withdrawal from market.

Notification date: 15 April 2011.

Notification from: Italy.

Notification Description: Mercury in frozen shark slices.

Origin: Thailand.

Distributed to: no distribution ( border rejection ).

Action taken: official detention.

Notification date: 14 April 2011.

Notification from: Spain.

Notification Description: Mercury in ‘white dogfish’.

Origin: Senegal.

Distributed to: no distribution ( border rejection ).

Analytical Result: 2.1 mg/kg – ppm.

Action taken: official detention.

Notification date: 14 April 2011.

Notification from: Spain.

Notification Description: Mercury in ‘white dogfish’.

Origin: Senegal.

Distributed to: no distribution ( border rejection ).

Analytical Result: 1.3 mg/kg – ppm.

Action taken: official detention.

Notification date: 07 March 2011.

Notification from: Italy.

Notification Description: Mercury in frozen slices of blue shark (Prionace glauca).

Origin: Spain.

Distributed to: Italy.

Analytical Result: 1.42 mg/kg – ppm.

Behind the Scenes - Video Diary 1

From Office to Ocean is David Diley's one man band shark film effort that has a lot of industry support. He's started vblogging from Fiji where Da Shark is hosting him and we'll be covering his video blog as time moves forward:

Just a quick blog to say the first video diary is up. As promised, I wanted to let you know the kind of gear we are shooting with out here and it also includes some nice sharky footage at the end which shot a few days ago. It's straight outta the camera so no processing on it but hey, check out all those Bull Sharks!!!

I'm gonna do a blog soon about how this is all affecting me and me feelings at actually being here but today, I'm sick unfortunately so will wait until I'm better to hopefully do it justice.

Incidentally, having missed the dives today due to aforementioned sickness, Mike and Chris, a really nice guy out here on a project called Broadreach, informed me they had one of the Tigers turn up not once, but twice! Damn! However, I am hopeful she'll be back to say hello to me soon.

Enjoy.