Shark Fin Soup Stop the cruelty towards sharks. In the last fifteen years demand for shark fin soup has boomed in Asia. Hong Kong, Sing apore and Taiwan are the main shark fin trading centres.
Asian consumers are unaware of the cruelty and unsustainability of the shark fin trade.
Tens of millions of sharks are killed every year, with at least 8,000 tonnes of sharkfins shipped to restaurants around the world, WildAid said. WildAid spent two years surveying 12 countries, including the main consuming markets and major shark-fishing nations, to check the latest status of the shark. Growing demand for sharkfins, coupled with the increasing prosperity of Asian countries, had propelled illegal shark-finning in 70 to 80 marine parks and conservation areas, the report said. WildAid, a non-profit conservation group based in the United States, launched its report entitled The End of the Line in Bangkok yesterday as part of its global campaign to save the shark. The report will be further publicised in Britain, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the United States.