阅读理解(强烈抵制) from environmentalists and consumer groups is pressuring restaurants to stop serving dishes containing the shark fin.
gh Hong Kong. In 2008,around 10,000 tons of fins from 87 countries passed through the city's ports. For environmentalists like Stanley Shea of French-founded Bloom Associationlow activists have been quite effective. Over the last two years governments in Hong Kong and Chinese mainland,as well as big corporations and hotel chains,have announced they will take shark fin soup off their menus and banquets.
It is in Hong Kong's Sheung Wan District that a lot of the shark fin trade happens. Here the local marine-product industry is suffering. Inside the small shops merchants talk freely about shark fins they sell these days. But in front of a camera nobody wants to mention shark fins;it is just too sensitive,they say. Not far away,at restaurant Lin Heung Kui,shark fin soup is a common dish on the menu. Around lunchtime,it is mostly the elderly and tourists who visit the place.
Shark fin soup has been the food of the rich and wealthy for hundreds of years in China. But times are slowly changing,said Veranica Mak,an anthropologist(人类学家) at the Chinese University of Hong Kongible person. In the past,when you wanted to show your social status,people made shark fins a signifier in a banquet,but nowadays this signifier changes,”she said.
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