The Cruel Shark Finning Industry
Details about this horrible 'delicacy'.
Every year, about 100 million sharks get kill, after the fishermen catch them just to cut off their fins, and then these sharks, still alive, are tossed back to the sea to have a slow, agonizing dead.
Shark with fin cut off
We are not counting here the hundreds of thousands of sharks that also get caught an incidental catch or bycatch.
Why is this brutal and senseless killing of sharks happening?
Several Asian countries, especially Hong Kong, have an insatiable appetite for shark fin soup.
Shark fin to make the disgusting "delicacy" soup
The reason is not the taste, but this is traditionally served in weddings and special ceremonies by wealthy people, so this shark fin soup is more seen as a "status" representation for the people that can afford it. One bowl of shark fin soup can cost easily 50 Euros, so this is not something than the average people can afford to consume.
Shark meat is not valuable and only the meat from very few shark species is taken by the fishermen, discarding all others.
This is cruel and unsustainable, and the demand for shark fins is destroying all the shark fin populations worldwide.
No shark gets exonerated from this brutality, and even the whale sharks which are the gentle giants of the sea, get killed for their fins.
Many countries in the world are killing sharks at this very moment to supply enough shark fins to be consumed.
I have been lobbying since 2007 to get several species of shark's uplisted in the CITES Appendices, along with my international shark colleagues, for the sharks to gain more protection and not be over hunted to extinction, but so far, China and some Asian countries allied by the powerful and wealthy Japan, quite often they manage to win. Yes, what Japan does is corruption at the highest level, but unfortunately, CITES is not the first nor the last international conservation convention or organization that gets affected or dysfunctional because of the Japanese intervention, and their well known anti-animal conservation work.
We have to stop this atrocity by creating awareness in our cities, regions, provinces, states and countries, to create effective bans on shark fin products, to reach an end of this shark massacre.
Here is a pdf report on this issue:
The Cruel Shark Finning Industry
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