Nina Whittaker is one of them. She is a student at Li Po Chun United World College in Hong Kong. She says many young people object to the way fishermen harvest shark fins.
NINA WHITTAKER: “They will take sharks on board and cut their fins off and throw the live sharks without their fins overboard. And they can’t swim without them so they’ll end up drowning and it’s a very painful and unpleasant death. And so you just have piles and piles and piles of fins, and the hundreds and hundreds of shark carcasses in the sea. Such a waste!”
Nina Whittaker says she does not even enjoy the taste of shark fin soup.
NINA WHITTAKER: “Having shark fins in your soup, it’s a cultural thing to some extent -- but it’s not an excuse. They have high levels of mercury in them, and they don’t really have that much taste: it’s basically chicken soup with jelly, so…”
BARBARA KLEIN: Gary Stokes is with the wildlife conservation group Sea Shepherd. He says the value of shark fins puts them in the same grouping as illegal drugs and weapons. He recently filmed Hong Kong businessmen drying tens of thousands of shark fins on the city’s sidewalks.
GARY STOKES: “A shipment had come in, and it was obviously a little bit still damp, and they needed to move it on to China. But, instead of the secrecy they normally have -- which it’s all kept behind closed doors, on roofs, and -- it was actually in a main highway, in a street, so…Just a rough estimation there, there was forty-one thousand fins there.”
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