Bruce Parry finds religion and shark fins in the Solomons

Interesting accidental coverage on the TV show Tribes.

Bruce Parry finds religion and shark fins in the Solomons
March 03, 2009 11:00pm, news.com.au

THAT red stuff on the guy's face there is turmeric. Bruce Parry. Tonight he's in Anuta, it's one of the Solomon Islands, even though it's more than 1100km from Honiara. They paint turmeric on themselves all the time.

And they also sell shark fins to China. They go out and do this big dangerous fishing trip and catch all these sharks and don't even bother to eat them, just slice the fins off and wait for the boat from China to come and collect them. I'm not happy about it. People are funny about sharks aren't they. If this were almost any other animal – a dolphin, say – can you just hear the uproar? It's like we love animals until they hurt one of us then we want to slaughter them all out of existence.