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Facts about the practice of shark finning and how it is destroying shark populations globally and putting our oceanic ecosystems at grave risk.
- Massacre for Soup
An essay about shark finning, the barbaric fishing practice...
- Shark Finning Legislation
Unregulated finning is destroying shark populations globally...
- Michael Aw
Michael Aw is an award-winning underwater photographer,...
- Species
Facts about many sharks from the eight orders of sharks from...
- Massacre for Soup
Shark finning is a fishing practice where sharks are caught and their fins are sliced off, then the body of the shark is discarded, alive or dead. Shark fins are particularly sought after for traditional Chinese medicine and shark fin soup which is considered a delicacy in Asia.
It is the gruesome practice of cutting off a live shark's fins and throwing the rest of the animal back into the sea, where it dies a slow and painful death. The fins are used in China and Hong Kong, and by Chinese communities elsewhere in the world, as the key ingredient in shark-fin soup.
Sharks have been feared hunters ever since people first observed them swimming in the vast ocean. Yet today, sharks are declining rapidly on a global scale because humans have replaced them as the ocean's top predators. One way that humans hunt sharks is by using a practice called shark finning.
Shark finning is cutting fins off a shark and dumping the body. In many countries, including Australia, this is illegal. In contrast, processing a shark is keeping the body and cutting it up into different products (i.e. flesh and fins).
Shark-finning is a practice where sharks are caught and their fins are cut off, then the body of the shark is discarded. Shark fins are particularly sought after for traditional Chinese medicine and shark fin soup which is considered a delicacy in Asia.
Shark finning facts: Sharks thrown back into the oceans after being finned die in agony from suffocation, blood loss or predation. Sharks are apex predators and play a vital role in maintaining marine ecosystems.
