Remember 1975?  This was the year when Steven Spielberg hit the screens with “Jaws”, the thriller about the man eating great white shark that terrorised the fictitious Amity Island. The movie has sparked an enormous increase in shark hunting and sharks are today hunted simply as a sport, but also for commercial reasons.

Each year 75 million sharks are killed solely for their fins and these end up in shark fin soup – the recipe is simple: chicken broth, mushrooms, and, of course, shark fin. It is considered quite a delicacy. Though it is served in restaurants across the world, Asia remains the largest consumer of shark fins. But do you know who the world’s largest exporter of shark fins is? That’s right, the European Union.  Read the full entry

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