G.C.S.E English Language MJA
Personal Writing: fiction
Are you still going to eat shark fins?
My name is Winnie Ip, I was born in a fisherman’s family. My father, Wai-sun Ip is a fisherman. My mother, Wai-ling Ip helps my father with the fishing. For most of the day, they stay on the boat. I am at school for much of the time, but you must also help with the fishing. We must work together if we are to survive.
One day, I went to help my father fish. We had a great catch on that day. To our surprise, there was a shark in our catch! Father was shocked to find he had caught a shark amongst the other unwanted creatures from the sea. His intention is not to catch shark but it got trapped in the nets. It was about three metres long and weighed more than 200 kilograms. It was tied up in our nets. Father untied the nets, pulled the shark out of the net and put it onto the deck carefully. Then he took out a sharp knife that was bloodstained, and he cut off all of the fins on its body. During this process, the shark was still alive. After all its fins were cut off, the shark would not died yet, father threw it back into the sea unexpectedly. I could saw the shark had been twisting its body, but it couldn’t move as normal because all the fins on its body had been cut away! Including its tail fin, the back fin, and pectoral fins…It had to struggle for a few days before it died. It would die of hunger or from the continual bleeding in its wounds. It could only lie on the seabed and wait for its unavoidable death. Oh no…I really felt sorry for the shark, this was too cruel to the animal. The shark was innocent and guiltless, but just because of the greediness of human beings, the shark had been killed. I was very sad because sharks are becoming extinct, but I also know how pleased my father would be to receive the money from the sale of this valuable fish.
