Jaws avenged.

• Author: Goethals, Henry
• Position: Sharks for food in Colombia

In a case of "Jaws in reverse," Colombians are discovering that sharks can make a tasty snack for humans. Hector Munoz, a writer for the Bogota newspaper El Espectador reports that shark sausage and shark cheese already have become popular consumer items in the Caribbean port of Santa Marta. The news reportedly is causing near-panic in the waters off Colombia's Atlantic and Pacific coasts, where sharks are warning their friends and neighbors to "beware of shark-eating men."

Munoz credits Armando Lacera Rua, a chemist and member of the fisheries engineering faculty of the Universidad del Magdalena, with developing the formula for making cheese using a lactobacillus culture produced from fermented shark meat. According to Lacera Rua, "the fermentation technique used in the production of cheese from milk appears to be transferable...