Spiritual Guru's Word Saves Hundreds Of Whale Shark

For a fisherman, nothing is perhaps more painful than to let go of a big catch with his own hands, especially if it happens to be a 30-ft whale shark that would fetch at least Rs 80,000. But that's exactly what fishermen of Saurashtra are doing - often cutting their expensive nets and releasing the whale shark they once butchered by the hundreds as the gentle giants came to breed in the warm waters of the Arabian Sea. On the face of it, behind this change of heart is a ban on hunting whale sharks. But the fishermen couldn't have cared less for the law if not for one man's word of faith, Morari Bapu's...