Shark Finning is a practice that is looked down upon for its gruesome and cruel method. Only the fins of the shark are harvested and are put into use, whilst the body is then left to die when thrown back in the ocean. The fins are consumed, notorious usage is that of shark fin soup. A delicacy with its only purpose being to assert your rank, your privilege and wealth; as a soup cost around US$100 this is proven so. It's used as an aphrodisiac, supposedly helps to stop ageing, organ functions--tasteless and little to no nutritional value. For this purpose and usage, every year, around 73 million sharks are slaughtered. Since the last 5 decades, the population of some species of sharks have declined by as much as 90%. Many of these also are not only the cause of shark finning but, by-catches. By-catches are fishes or other marine species caught "unintentionally" while catching certain target species and target sizes of marine life. Though some by-catch may survive, many die in the process.
Sharks are the apex predator, not many, or at all can make sharks their prey. They control the ecosystem, balancing certain species so that they wouldn't overpopulated. Overpopulation is a problem with how the life cycle balances. This occurrence would likely be the extinction of certain species whose hunter are the preys of sharks. As such this would disrupt how much of the said species there are. In turn, when the said species is extinct soon enough, the shark's prey would be also as their source of food is no more. This chain of reactions could possibly cause the extinction of countless species that including ourselves.
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