Marine life activists sound off ahead of shark fishing tournament

Marine life activists sound off ahead of shark fishing tournament

Source: wptv

7/8/2022

A shark fishing competition is set to take place Saturday. The location is confidential for safety reasons.

"Come out fishing with us, we're open to talk. The problem is the other side wants to threaten us," said Robert 'Fly' Navarro. "There's a lot of emotion on both sides."

Navarro is a sports fisherman representing the competition and says 50 boats are registered for the tournament, despite an online petition with 142,000+ signatures to cancel the shark hunt.

"It's no different than if it was a snook tournament, or a billfish tournament or a blue marlin tournament," said Navarro.

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