Closing the Loopholes on Shark Finning
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- 22nd January 2012
- by thedconceptadmin
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Fetching up to 500 Euros a kilo when dried, shark fins are rich pickings for fishermen. Most shark fins end up in Asia where shark fin soup is a traditional delicacy and status symbol.
With shark fins fetching such a high price, and with the rest of the shark being so much less valuable, many fishermen have taken to ‘finning’ the sharks they catch to save room on their boats for the bodies of more commercially important fish.