He is very excited about it, and buys shark's-fin soup for the occasion hoping to please her. She comes and tells him that he is just the same as usual, and that he hasn't changed a bit.

There is a robust global market for shark fins in particular to meet the demand for shark fin soup. Shark fin soup is a popular (and pricey) dish in some East Asian societies, prized as a symbol of ...

For over a decade, AWI has provided an online database of restaurants in the United States that continue to serve shark fin soup. The goal is to help people avoid such establishments and to call ...

Mohamad Yar and his friend at shop 69, Fida Hussain, say "hotel people" come early morning to stock up for the day's shark dishes in their restaurants - fin soup and such like. Some days ...

Did you know that sharks have been around for more than 400 million years? That means they’ve been around even longer than dinosaurs (who only existed for about 65 million years). In the past 60 ...

“People consume shark’s fin soup mostly during weddings, birthdays, and festival celebrations.” More than a third sold in Hong Kong comes from vulnerable or endangered species Shark fin is ...

A demand for shark fin soup is one of the driving factors in the depleting numbers of sharks in the ocean. The proposal, which was tabled by Mexico and requires ratification this week, means that ...

A landmark decision to regulate the trade in sharks for shark fin soup is bound to have ramifications for Japan, a key exporting nation. Blue sharks were among 54 species of requiem sharks that ...

The fins are then used as an ingredient in a delicacy known as shark fin soup. Jurisdictions that have either partial or complete bans on finning, per the Animal Welfare Institute, include the ...

This London restaurant owner wouldn't even let Gordon Ramsay and his cameras in to see the soup and talk to customers. So in an effort to understand the shark fin demand, Ramsay traveled to Taipei ...