Sentences with phrase «shark fin soup over»
Experts have long cautioned that soaring demand for shark fin soup over the past two decades has imperiled shark populations around the globe.
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One third of shark species is endangered; over 11,000 sharks are caught and killed every hour, mostly for their fins, to make shark fin soup.
Over the last 50 years, global shark populations have declined by 90 percent as a result of overfishing, which has been exacerbated during the last decades by the growing demand for shark fins, specifically to be used as the key ingredient in shark fin soup.
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