Thursday, August 8, 2013

Poor sharks

Many of the sharks are the victims of finning, where a fisherman pulls the shark onboard the boat, cuts off its fins, and tosses the defenseless shark back into the water. Shark fins are used as a thickener in a popular Asian soup as well as folk remedies. Shark finning is believed to be a $1.2 billion industry.

More info: http://bit.ly/18b8IhI
Statistic source: http://bit.ly/19bjF7r



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