Cathay Pacific bans shark fin cargo flights
CNN
Sept 5, 2012
Cathay Pacific, the world’s largest carrier of air cargo, will stop shipping unsustainably sourced shark products in a move marine conservationisists characterized as a big step forward in efforts to protect the animals.
China bans shark fins in state banquets
The New York Times
July 3, 2012
China announced that it would prohibit official banquets from serving shark fin soup, to be phased out in 1-3 years.
NTUC Fairprice, Singapore’s largest supermarket chain, says no to shark fin products
Asian Scientist
Jan 5, 2012
In an unprecedented move, Singapore’s largest supermarket chain, NTUC Fairprice, with a network of more than 230 outlets, has promised to remove shark fin products from its inventory by the first quarter of 2012.
Ban on shark fin dishes, but first you can eat them free…
Shanghai Daily
Jan 2, 2012
A Chinese restaurant owner has caused a stir after he vowed to remove shark fins from the menu, but at the same time announced he would serve his remaining stock free. Shangguan Junle, chairman of Haomen Jipin Restaurants in northern Shanxi Province, …
As Affluence Spreads, So Does the Trade in Endangered Species
New York Times
Jan 1, 2012
The sale of shark fins has been banned in several US states after soaring demand from China, where shark-fin soup is considered an essential dish at weddings, led to a steep fall in global shark populations. And in South Africa, which is bearing the …
CNMI champions shark protection
Saipan Tribute
December 30, 2011
Benavente, who stepped down as a member of the House of Representatives six months after his shark fin ban bill became law on Jan. 27, said his legislation will make a difference not only in the lives of CNMI people but also the people in other parts …
PEOPLE: Simply say ‘no’
New Straits Times
December 30, 2011
Before you leave the shark exhibition, you’ll be asked to sign a pledge to stop eating shark’s fin soup. Do remember that although no more than 15 humans may be killed by sharks each year, over 100 million sharks die unnecessarily at the hands of man. …
Remembering a varied year
Coquitlam Now
December 30, 2011
Fin wants finning finished. New Westminster-Coquitlam MP Fin Donnelly introduces a private member’s bill that seeks to ban the import of shark fins into Canada. The move is based on stats that suggest shark populations worldwide are threatened by the …
The top 10 shark conservation stories of 2011
Southern Fried Science
December 28, 2011
These laws ban the possession, trade, or sale of shark fins within the boundaries of a city, state/territory, or country. In 2011, Hawaii’s first-in-the-US fin ban took effect, and a few other US states (California, Washington, and Oregon) passed …
New 2012 laws: No caffeine in beer, shark fins in soup
The Washington Times
December 26, 2011
Starting Jan 1, getting shark fins, caffeinated beer, cough syrup or a tan is going to be tougher than it was in 2011. The National Conference of State Legislatures issued Monday its annual list of laws set to take effect in 2012, and there was nothing but bad news …
Office workers hunting for “royal food” to present Tet gifts to bosses
VietNamNet Bridge
December 26, 2011
Lan went on to say that she is planning to buy either salangane’s nests, shark fin or abalone. “I have been told that these products are very good to human health, therefore, I believe that the boss will be satisfactory with the gifts.” Lan said. …
Environmentalists circling shark fin soup
China Daily
December 23, 2011
Most hotels on the Chinese mainland are staying out of controversial waters when it comes to serving shark fin soup, and are keeping the dish on their menus despite repeated calls from animal rights organizations to …
Woman caught allegedly trying to smuggle shark fins into US
Los Angeles Times
December 22, 2011
A 54-year-old Mexican woman was caught allegedly attempting to smuggle 29 pounds of shark fins into the US at the San Ysidro border crossing, the US Customs and Border Protection said Thursday. Shark fins can fetch more than $2000 a pound from markets …
Ocean Conservation in California: Top 5 Steps Forward in 2011
Natural Resources Defense Council (blog)
Over the past 50 years, humans have caught about 90% of the world’s sharks, and with demand for shark fin soup growing, there’s little relief in sight for the ocean’s apex predator. But in a big victory for sharks, Governor Brown signed a bill banning …
Analyzing animal welfare
China Daily
December 21, 2011
The shark-fin soup debate is a classic case in point. Environmental activists unfairly brand Chinese people as “public enemies” by claiming that the fins are cut off live sharks. Actually, most shark fins come from dead sharks, and most of them are a …
2011 Year in Review
Ecology Global Network
December 20, 2011
‘Nemo’ and friends: Even cuteness can’t protect them
Minneapolis Star Tribute
December 17, 2011
Many sharks are being targeted to make the Asian delicacy shark fin soup; seahorses are coveted as curios. Other species, such as sea turtles, are vulnerable because they can get entangled in commercial fishing gear and because their nesting areas have …
The Top 5 Fish Stores of 2011
Center For American Progress
December 16, 2011
The fins are mainly prized as the signature element in the Asian delicacy shark fin soup, which can sell for more than $1000 per serving in some high-end restaurants despite the insistence by epicures that the fin itself adds nothing to the actual …
Endangered Species: Egypt’s sharks
Al-Masry Al-Youm
December 15, 2011
Sharks may be sold for hefty sums because they can be used in delicacies such as shark fin soup. “Over the years we’ve had many different cases of illegal fishing in the Red Sea,” says Amr Ali, the managing director at the HEPCA. …
Demon Fish: overexploited oceans and the loss of their top predators
Scholars and Rogues
December 16, 2011
We are, Eilperin discovers, far more closely tied to sharks than we might ever realize or admit. …which still doesn’t prevent us from exploiting them. Shark fin soup is, far and away, the largest culprit. As Eilperin discovers, though, the entire …
Note of thanks to Sabah govt for shark fin ban
Malaysia Star
December 14, 2011
Sabah’s bold decision to restrict the shark fin trade next year moved an individual so much that he decided to write a thank you letter, and got more than a dozen concerned Malaysians to put their signatures on it. …
Illegal shark fishing investigated
Taipei Times
December 12, 2011
The report said a Greenpeace helicopter spotted sharks and fins on board the Sheng Chi Hui on Thursday while the fishing vessel was inside Palau’s shark sanctuary, which it set up in 2009 to help protect more than 130 endangered Pacific shark species …
Hotels rally to stamp out the unkindest cut
The Australian
December 10, 2011
FOOD Detective is willing to try most things once when it comes to food. But the cruel practice of shark finning, where sharks — often still alive—are cast back into the sea to drown or be killed …
Donnelly’s bill aims to end shark fin imports to Canada
Vancouver Sun
December 9, 2011
New Democrat MP Fin Donnelly introduced a private member’s bill on Thursday to end shark fin imports to Canada. Donnelly, who is the official Opposition fisheries critic and represents New …
Shark fin imports targeted by MP’s bill
CBC.ca
December 8, 2011
NDP MP Fin Donnelly is trying to stamp out the international trade of shark fins by proposing legislation that would ban their import to Canada. The NDP’s fisheries and oceans critic introduced a private member’s bill Thursday in the House of Commons …
Shark fin off the menu
The Sydney Morning Herald
December 3, 2011
A prestigious hotel chain has taken a bold step on behalf of the beleaguered shark, writes Justin McCurry. The campaign to save the global …
Shark lovers left high and dry
China Daily
November 28, 2011
Several luxury hotels and popular restaurants have decided to take shark fin soup – a traditional delicacy on banquet tables – off the menu to …
Stop badmouthing sharks that bite people
The New Scientist
November 28, 2011
The phrase shark attack is sensationalist and damaging, argues Christopher Neff – bites by sharks are often investigatory or defensive.
The Shark Fin Soup Tradeoff
International Business Times
November 27, 2011
Over the past year, the international movement to halt the shark fin trade has made leaps and bounds, moving up the chain from campaigns …
Hong Kong’s shark fin traders feel pressure to change
AFP
November 26, 2011
Hong Kong (AFP) Nov 27, 2011 – The owner of Shark’s Fin City, a dried fin wholesaler … Hong Kong’s shark fin traders feel pressure to change …
Canada’s shark hunters get to keep their jobs
Toronto Star
November 26, 2011
Canada was the lone voice against an international fishing ban proposed to protect the porbeagle shark.
NDP launches petition to ban import of shark fins
Yahoo News
November 26, 2011
NDP launches petition to ban import of shark fins to Canada’ from our blog Canada Politics on Yahoo! News. It’s been banned in Toronto …
Prime Minister refuses to legalize marijuana or ban shark fins
Vancouver Sun
November 25, 2011
Harper said: “Canada does not favour a ban of shark fins. We do, however, and we’ve been very clear that Canada supports only the humane harvesting of sharks.”
Is shark fin slowly becoming passé in Hong Kong?
Time Ecocentric
November 23, 2011
It was the go-to soup for emperors of centuries past — a tradition revered in Chinese culture that ultimately symbolized wealth, status and …
Pickering joins shark fin ban
Toronto Star
November 22, 2011
Pickering has joined the growing list of municipalities that have banned shark fin products.
European Union considering shark finning ban
ecorazzi.com
November 22, 2011
The European Commission has approved a proposed ban on shark finning.
Shark fins off the menu at top hotel
CNN
November 22, 2011
Asia’s oldest hotel chain has waded into the debate on the slaughter of sharks … Shark fins off the menu at top hotel.
Hong Kong hotel group strikes shark fin off menu
Vancouver Sun
November 21, 2011
One of Asia’s most prestigious hotel chains said Monday it would stop selling shark fin from January, in a move hailed as a historic …
EU proposes ban on shark finning
Reuters
November 21, 2011
The European Union’s executive Monday proposed a blanket ban on shark finning, in which the fins are sliced off …
Shark feeding frenzy
China Daily
November 17, 2011
Half the world’s harvested shark fins pass through Hong Kong, according to the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). On the streets adjoining Des Voeux …
Shark fin soup debate is about everything but the taste
thespec.com
November 15, 2011
Many call the practice of harvesting shark fins cruel. Others worry the growing municipal bans on the sale of shark products target the Chinese …
What do you do if you serve shark fin soup?
Globe and Mail
November 8, 2011
Do you take a popular food item off your menu just because the local government will fine you if you’re caught serving it?
Glenn De Baeremaeker pilots shark fin ban through council
The Grid T.O.
October 26, 2011
Remote-controlled sharks, costumed spectators and nasty exchanges between young and old Chinese attendees—yesterday’s vote on the …
All hail Toronto’s shark fin ban
Globe and Mail
October 26, 2011
Just because it is a cultural tradition doesn’t make it defensible. And shark finning – the slaughtering of sharks solely for their fins – is not a …
Toronto bans shark fin
CBC News
October 25, 2011
Toronto city council has voted overwhelmingly to ban the sale of shark fin.
City Council votes 38 to 4 to ban shark fin sales
National Post
October 25, 2011
Toronto City Council has resoundingly voted to ban the sale, consumption and possession of shark fins within its borders, with Mayor Rob Ford …
Council bans sale, consumption of shark fin
Toronto Star
October 25, 2011
Toronto council chambers erupted in applause Tuesday afternoon after council voted 38-4 to ban the possession, sale and consumption of …
Toronto shark fin ban draws mounting opposition ahead of vote
Globe and Mail
October 24, 2011
Opposition is mounting to a proposed ban on the sale and possession of shark fins, to be considered this week by Toronto city council. Two of Rob Ford’s closest allies on council …
With only spines attached, shark fins come ashore
ticotimes.net
October 14, 2011
Foreign fishing ships are bringing in shark skeletons – the flesh shaved away – with just their fins attached to the body. Local fishermen see this as another way that fishing fleets are evading shark finning laws.
Shark fins illegal in California starting 2012
Straight.com
October 7, 2011
Starting in 2012, the sale, purchase, and possession of shark fins will be illegal in the state of Califronia. Today (October 7), California governor Jerry Brown signed bill Ab376…
Don’t try to ban shark fin soup, city report advises councillors
Toronto Star
October 6, 2011
A Toronto councillor is confident his colleagues will ignore “timid” advice from city staff and vote for a ban on the consumption and sale of shark fin.
VIDEO: Inside a shark slaughterhouse in China
Toronto Star
October 1, 2011
On the blood-slicked floors of Haideli Shark Products, the air heavy with the smell of ammonia, as many as 100 sharks per day arrive to be butchered and processed as food. The most highly prized parts – the fins – are destined to become shark fin soup, the high-priced Asian delicacy.
Persuading the Chinese to give up shark’s fin soup
The Economist
October 1, 2011
Is the tide turning against shark’s fin soup? Conservationists certainly hope so. On September 22nd in Shanghai Wildaid, a charity, launched a campaign to persuade Chinese people to give up eating the delicacy. Celebrity support for the bid was provided by Yao Ming…
The sweet smell of extinction?
Timeout.com
September 28, 2011
As more North American states ban shark fins, Shirley Zhao explores what such a move might mean for the Hong Kong market
Shark fin vote adds to pressure on Hong Kong
NY Times
September 12, 2011
The battle to protect the world’s endangered shark population has passed another major milstone with a California Senate vote that bans the possession, sale and distribution of shark fins.
Let’s keep sharks out of soup
Huffington Post
September 12, 2011
These majestic predators have been swimming the world’s oceans for more than 400 million years, and we should keep them where they …
Shark Truth seeks alternatives with Sans Fin Soup Contest in Vancouver
Straight.com
September 13, 2011
With the California senate recently passing a bill banning shark fins, Shark Truth founder Claudia Li looks forward to a national ban on shark …
Tide is turning in shark debate
Toronto Star
July 8, 2011
Dear guest: We are replacing the traditional shark fin soup in a Chinese banquet with a lobster bisque. We are boycotting shark fin soup because sharkfinning is a cruel practice and its effects are destroying the environment.
Protecting the sharks
Toronto Star
June 15, 2011
Each year it’s estimated that some 70 million sharks end up slowly dying at the bottom of our oceans, their fins sliced off for the dubious pleasure of a bowl of soup in a restaurant.
Culture clash over proposed shark fin ban
National Post
June 14, 2011
“Usually it’s cooked with premium seafood – like crab meat – a little sesame oil and a little soy and oyster sauce as well,” says Cliff Wang, as he places a bowl of shark fin soup onto the white tablecloth. “It always comes up thick like that.”
Toronto councillors campaign to ban ‘barbaric’ shark fin soup
Toronto Star
June 13, 2011
Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam grew up, like many in Chinese-Canadians in Toronto, slurping shark fin soup – a symbol of luxury and wealth served at weddings and other auspicious occasions. On Monday, she stood beside colleague Glenn De Baeremaeker…
When shark activists bite back
Globe and Mail
Ms. Li’s Shark Truth has been spreading its message through young Chinese couples, encouraging them to drop shark-fin soup from their traditional wedding banquets. Since she started the volunteer group in 2009, an increasing number of couples around the world have pledged not to serve it.