Shark Fin Soup...you must be kidding???

While I was having lunch, the discovery channel was on in the restaurant. Shark week is this week which is usually quite interesting. A gentlemen waiting for his lunch to go began telling me about a time when he was in South Africa and he observed fisherman catching sharks, pulling them up along the side of the boat and then cutting off their fins and throwing back into the water. He said the process was very fast and that the fins are shipped off for high prices.

Needless to say I was mortified! Before sharing this such bizarre information I did the research to see if this could be verified. Please check out this site and there are others. If there is anything anyone can do by all means this should be halted at once. ( In my opinion)

http://www.sharkfriends.com/sharks/sharkfinning.html