Shark Finning

Many shark populations have experienced a sharp decline due to long exploitation. Because of its slow reproductive rate, it is on the verge of extinction. Sharks of many ecosystems - extinction of leading predators - brings a dangerous imbalance to the oceanic community around the world

Because shark's fin is high in commercial value and the value of meat is relatively low, fishermen often only have fins, leaving the rest of the body - a very cruel and useless custom. Normally, sharks live on the fin - they take a fishing boat to cut out their fins and return it to the sea where they suffocate or bleed until death, or by other animals I can eat it. It is stunning that animals experience most difficulties. Shark fin is the main ingredient of shark's fin soup, it is popular (and expensive) dish in East Asian society, but it can be found in restaurants all over the world. As a symbol of prosperity, it has traditionally served special occasions such as weddings and banquets.

Every year 73 million sharks are dying of fillets. About 50 million sharks die each year due to unregulated and undifferentiated longline, bycatch and trawl fishery. Taiwan, Japan and Spain's high sea sword fishery often adopts these fins opportunistically after capturing many sharks as bycatch. Shark cartilage, liver oil, meat is also used at low levels

More than 100 species of sharks have appeared in the red list of endangered species of IUCN, but there are only 17 types of sharks and only 2 species of bats that have transaction restrictions. In 2002, the carp and the whale shark had been trade protected in Appendix II (CITES) of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora; in 2004 there was a large white shark. A similar list postponed to September 2014 will realize the bat and in 2013 will be a marine white fin, a smooth hammer head shark, a huge hammerhead shark, a zebra shark

Due to the cruelness of shark's fin and the vulnerability of the number of individuals in shark's fin, AWI is working to stop doing so to the American restaurant currently offering shark's fin soup. Read more about shark fin sports in AWI in the world and the USA or check out the list of restaurants offering shark's fin soup in your area.

Since 1997, the increase in shark's fin is mainly due to an increase in demand for shark's fin soup and traditionally processed shark fin, especially in China and its area, as well as improvement in fishery technology and market economy. The Shark Expert Group of the International Conservation Union is a shakuhile is common, "Shakuhire transactions that expand rapidly and are largely unregulated are one of the most serious threats to shark's fin populations around the world "Said. The worldwide value of shark's fin business is estimated to range from 540 million dollars to 1.2 billion dollars (2007). Shark fin is one of the most expensive marine products, usually retailed at $ 400 per kilogram. In the US where fins are forbidden, some buyers consider jim sharks and sunbathing sharks as trophies and pay $ 10,000 to $ 20,000 to the fins.

Demand for shark's fin soup is so great that sharks are overfished in danger within decades. Every year, tens of millions of sharks are being killed by a fin used in shark fin business. This is the demand for fins far beyond the demand for fins and promotes consumption of this unsustainable shark. The fin value is 20 to 250 times that of meat 2. The shark's poor reproductive ability is totally in contrast to most other fish with high fertility, so that population can survive among predators. On the other hand, sharks have few predators bill billions of years ago, about 30 years ago humans actively began targeting them.

Sharks are often killed by shark's fin soup. Fishermen will capture live sharks, put fins on them, and bring back featherless animals underwater. Shark fin includes fins removal with hot metal blades. The resulting immobile sharks quickly died for suffocation or predators. Shark's fin is the main trade in the world's black market. In 2009, the fins sold at about $ 300 / pound. Poachers illegally earn millions of dollars each year. There are few governments implementing laws to protect them. In 2010, Hawaii became the first US state to prohibit the possession, sale, trading or sale of shark's fin. From 1996 to 2000, about 38 million sharks die each year due to sharks due to fisheries.