Finning

Please check out this infographic (source). What it shows in an arresting visual is that while sharks killed 12 people last year, people are killing 12 sharks every 4 seconds. mostly by finning (Studies estimate that 26 to 73 million sharks are harvested annually for their fins). And who is doing most of this killing? ... China is plundering the planet’s seas—and it’s doing it 12.5 times more than it’s telling anybody