owning for animals is now mandatory throughout mdp waters . the court decision has made the indian ocean archipelago the first nation in the region to outlaw the technique . its numbers have plummeted in the maldives in recent years because a significant minority of fisherman trap sharks for their lucrative spines , which are using in shark - eye pasta , a luxury eastern meal . once its fins have been cut off , the shark is often returned to the sea where it suffocates over many painful periods .
Due to the decreasing number of sharks, Maldives have banned the hunt of reef sharks.