Greenland Shark Waste as a Biofuel: Making the Most of Throw-Aways

The meat of the Greenland shark is potentially an ingredient for a biofuel. According to AFP, the Greenland shark
is often caught and dies in the nets of Greenlander fishermen. This results in many Greenland shark catches
being disposed of in the ocean. It’s predatory on other marine life like fish and seals, according to Wikpedia. The fish can be a long as 23 feet and weigh as much as (roughly) 2,200 pounds. It’s comparable to the size of the Great White shark. What a good idea to experiment with waste to see if it’s really waste, after all. Yet the environmentalists are already squawking about it.
Scheduled for 2010 in Sisimiut, Greenland, this kind of shark meat is going to be combined with macro-algae and wastewater from people’s homes to see how viable it will be as a biofuel by the Arctic Technology Centre (ARTEK). The potential here for less reliance on fossil fuels is great when you think of all the fishing that goes on in this world; and thus, the waste that is created from it. Rather than just send fish rejects and polluted water back to the sea like Greenlanders in this area do, let’s be glad for the experiments. Imagine fish being more than a meal for man or a tourist attraction, that it can also fuel our machinery that helps make life go on. The Greenland shark and other fish could be the potential for more jobs and a better standard of living for people in the world.

But alas, anything that seems progressive is often the target of environmentalists.

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