date:Nov 07, 2012
s and Border Protection.
Legal shark harvests exist worldwide, yet few companies involved in the trade are willing to speak on the record for fear of being mentioned in the same breath as finning. One executive, whose company harvests thresher sharks in inshore waters in South America, says finning is an ugly scene and asked to not be identified.
The market for shark fins is not limited to Asia: Canada, Indonesia and the United States were all active importers in 2008, according to the United