Changing attitudes among young Chinese means shark's fin soup is increasingly off banquet menus, according to a new report from WildAid, which says the consumption of the delicacy is no longer the ...

Environmental groups including Heal the Bay and the Natural Resources Defense Council are holding a rally Saturday to protest the Chinese tradition of service shark fin soup. And the demonstration’s ...

“Shark's fin takes an enormous amount of work to prepare,” says Cecilia Chiang, at 92 still one of the country's most respected Chinese-American restaurateurs. When she ran the Mandarin, her San ...

Adeline Chan's nose crinkles at the market's pungent, briny smell. She and her mother were once regulars at Hong Kong's Dried Seafood Market, where endless stalls display plastic bins stuffed to the ...

Shark fins for sale in a gourmet Chinese food store. Prices for shark fins range up to 600 dollars per pound. In the vibrant streets of Southeast Asia's culinary landscape, amidst the bustling seafood ...

To protect our oceans and marine life, we must rethink harmful practices such as the persistent tradition of eating shark fin soup as a luxury food item. Dr Ronald C Po’s research explores the ...

More than 70 million sharks are killed for their fins worldwide each year. Those fins are considered a status symbol and a delicacy in some parts of the world and are often used in a soup. The demand ...

Worldwide, eleven thousand (11,000) sharks will be killed within the next 60 minutes. That’s 180 sharks per minute; it’s a bloody affair. One hundred million (100,000,000) are killed per year, mostly ...