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Shark feeding: I'm basically agin it. Anything that changes animals' behaviour in an unnatural direction must be bad. I'm sure there are better ways of making people (both divers and others) appreciate what wonderful creatures sharks are and if you want to see sharks I can suggest several places where sightings are more or less gauranteed without feeding them.
Feeding eggs to Napoleonfish: Steve is dead right. NO, NO, NO, NO! The first time I went to the Red Sea (1989) we DID feed hard-boiled eggs to the Napoleon fish. Nobody understood then that it was harmful. There have been several Georges at Sharm over the years, probably because divers killed them (one even got harpooned!!), mainly by feeding therm hard-boiled eggs.
Feeding other fish: In principle no, because of the risk of influencing their behaviour (see above), but I don't see much harm in cracking a mussel and feeding the wrasse at sites that are seldom visited by divers and the wrasse are unlikely to become habituated. From a purely ethical point of view, I would have to say no but, being a hypocritical barsteward, I sometimes do it.
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