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SHARKS and everything cool about them. The Shark-Free Marina Initiative. Shark Nets - Part 2 / 2. New Photos Highlight Global Extent of Shark Fin Trade: Pew Calls For More Action to Protect Depleted Species - Pew environment Group. Magnificant Ocean. Whale Shark Slaughter in India- Shores of Silence. Sharks. Stop shark finning. Shark Slaughter: 73 Million Killed Each Year. The world's booming shark fin trade is killing up to 73 million sharks per year—about three times more than the official catch number reported to the United Nations, a new study concludes. The findings, derived using data collected from illegal shark fin traders, are detailed in the October issue of the journal Ecology Letters. "The shark fin trade is notoriously secretive. But we were able to tap into fin auction records and convert from fin sizes and weights to whole shark equivalents to get a good handle on the actual numbers," said study leader Shelley Clarke, an American fisheries scientist who works in Hong Kong and Japan.

[Image of fins] Tons of shark flesh The researchers arrived at their figure using a unique statistical model and data obtained from cooperative traders of shark fins in Hong Kong. The new figure is the first fishery-independent estimate of the global shark catch for the shark fin trade, the researchers say. Sliced alive Ripple effects.