Video: Fin Soup Drives Shark Decline
By Wendy Heller, January 3, 2008 @ 02:00 AM (EST)
Source: Nationalgeographic.com
The delicacy is a status symbol in fast-growing China, where demand has caused a startling drop in the number of sharks in the Atlantic.
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