Are shark fin bans on Chinese airlines enough?

[Sea Save Foundation]

Joining the 60 worldwide shipping companies that have banned shipments of shark fins are four airlines in China; China Eastern Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, China Cargo Airlines and China United Airlines. Each year an estimated 73-100 million sharks are caught for their fins. The only major airline in China not to ban shark fin shipments is Hainan Airlines.

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Do you think this will have a significant effect on the shark fin market in China?

 

[CarcharodonCarcharias]

I will bite. The answer is "No".

Singapore is the second largest trading hub for shark fins. The ethnic Chinese poeple in Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan (shark fins are offered in the Chinese restaurants in Tokyo) and Indonesia still eat it. I know for a fact that millions of sharks are still slaughtered every year in Indonesia and Malaysia for fins.

Unless there is a pervasive culture change or somehow it is proven that shark fin is a carcinogen, I fear that sharks will be eaten to extinction.