hunting reef animals is now ban throughout nasheed lands . the government decision has made the indian ocean archipelago the first nation in the nation to outlaw the game . bass sales have nosedived in the maldives in many years because a significant fraction of locals target sharks for their deadly tails , which are used in shark - fin soup , a premier asian meal . once its scales have been severed off , the sharks is often returned to the sea where it suffocates over four painful hours .
Due to the decreasing number of sharks, Maldives have banned the hunt of reef sharks.