[JohnR]

Shark finning does go a bit overboard, doesn't it? I see where you can have a viable comercial fishery that is efficient in its use of resources but cuting off fins for soup? Come on! What a waste of a species. The worst thing about it is when a shark too small to have reproduced is finned. Sharks take years to become old enough to breed and they don't have many offspring... This ban makes some sense to me.