Every year for every shark that has killed a human, untold millions of sharks are killed...? ONLY for their fins, just so ignorant people can have a bowl of shark fin soup. The people that eat the shark fin soup, for the most part, are maybe unaware of the disastrous effects that the so-called %26quot;delicacy%26quot; that they are enjoying is having on the natural environment but they probably wouldn%26#039;t care even if they knew the horrific details pertaining to the capture and de-finning of those magnificent animals whose numbers are rapidly being depleted just so people in China can eat a bowl of shark fin soup. My question is, at what point will the goverment of China realize that it can no longer continue to eat %26quot;delacacies%26quot; that are not sustainable? What can the world community do to %26quot;encourage%26quot; the Chinese to not support these sorts of environmentally unsound and wasteful ways?
Another question: When will the maritime authorities step up to the plate and strictly enforce, with severe penalties and
fines, laws that should already be firmly in place to stop this disaster?

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Other Answers (6)

• No one can control fishing practices outside their own countries boundaries, and most can%26#039;t control them within their boundaries. Just because a government recognises the problem of overfishing doesn%26#039;t mean it can control poaching.
  
  But %26quot;responsible%26quot; governments can refuse to buy products from those countries in protest ... so can you. Don%26#039;t buy Japanese or Chinese goods if you don%26#039;t support their environmental practices.
• Did you ever see jaws, I hope the kill every single one, till there is none except what is in an aquarium or a museums. all, everyone. dead. Get it?
• ... while millions more sharks swim about totally ignoring all that and simply looking for their next meal, whether human, shark bodies thrown overboard without fins, or whatever.
  And FYI, it%26#039;s the Japanese that enjoy shark fin soup. Chinese eat rice, lots and lots of rice, or if they live in cities, occasionally Kentucky Fried Chicken or McDonald%26#039;s, with rice on the side.
• you could add this on with
  chickens
  cows
  pigs
  sheep
  turtles
  frogs
  turkeys
  fish
  these animals have been treated horrific and terrible by humans just for food
• The problem is that much of the worlds ocean is beyond the economic exclusion zone and therefore beyond the power of any country to control thus until this zone is policed no animal or habitat will be safe from exploitation
• And sharks kill humans for food when they have millions of fish in the sea..
  
  I hope you%26#039;re vegetarian, b/c you never said anything about cows, pigs, chicken.
  
  I%26#039;m a vegetarian.