What is it?

Shark finning is a practice in which people go out and attack sharks to take their fins off. The process itself can be slow and very inhuman to a shark. The fins are usually removed while the shark is still alive! After the fins are removed, the rest of the shark (usually more than 90%) is thrown overboard and left to drown, and ultimately die at the bottom of the ocean floors where it will be eaten alive by other larger predators. All of this is done for a piece of cartilage which has no beneficial use to humans what-so-ever. The whole purpose of taking the fins from the amazing animals is to use them in a food called shark fin soup. Stick around for my next post,which will go into some of the effects that shark finning has on the ocean's ecosystem and I will also talk about shark fin soup briefly.

A shark sinking to the bottom after the fins were removed(above)