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Nordic Aquafarms fires new California project director over lion kill photo

Shawn Harriman told the California newspaper that the image was not an example of trophy hunting and that he shot the lion while it was charging him and others

By Jason Huffman | Jan. 10, 2020 17:27 GMT
This photograph of Shawn Harriman posing next to a lion he killed in Africa was reportedly posted online in 2015 as part of a blog called “The Disease of Trophy Hunting: Naming and Shaming These Sub-Humans.” The post appears to have been taken down.
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Shawn Harriman’s new job as senior vice president of projects for Nordic Aquafarms’ west coast US recirculating aquaculture system (RAS) operation lasted less than a week. The Norwegian company has now dismissed him over a photograph reportedly taken 15 years earlier that shows him posing with a lion he killed in Africa. [...]

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