All you have to do is visit the China-based Alibaba.com website, enter "shark fins" and you'll discover that vendors in most Third World nations and many industrialized nations -- including the United States -- sell them.
Salted, unsalted, dried ... If you want 'em, you can have them shipped by the kilo, as many as you want.
I checked on Alibaba this morning and found several pages of companies selling shark fins. On the first page alone there were companies based in the Maldives (three), Singapore (four), Indonesia (two), Bangladesh, Cameroon, Thailand, Vietnam, Ecuador, Spain, United Arab Emirates, and elsewhere.
Perhaps the conservation groups, aside from calling for a ban on shark-fin soup, ought to also go after Alibaba and demand that the global-marketplace website stop allowing the sale of shark fins.
Credit: SeaWatch. In second photo, shark fins dry like somebody's laundry on a boat in Yap, Micronesia. Credit: Associated Press
clipped from latimesblogs.latimes.com
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