Dozens of activists protested on 10 June exterior the flagship restaurant of Maxim's Group in Hong Kong against the selling of shark fin soup inward its restaurants’ menus.
The protesters, a pose out of whom were children, wore finless shark costumes splattered amongst cerise pigment as well as chanted, “When the buying stops, the killing tin too”. Photos of their demonstration were shared on Twitter.
Hong Kong is the world’s middle in shark fin trade, accounting for almost one-half of the global shark fin merchandise every year. The take for shark fin soup at Chinese banquets is behind the finning of 73 1 M 1000 of sharks every year. Currently approximately a quarter of the world's shark and ray species are threatened amongst extinction.
While a survey in 2015 indicated that 94 pct of the respondents did non desire to eat the threatened species, local restaurants direct maintain refused to accept the luxurious dish off their menus. In most cases, consumers are compelled to select the restaurants’ fix menus for their marriage or festival banquets, which normally include shark fin soup. As indicated inward the Hong Kong Shark Foundation’s survey, which covered 375 Chinese restaurants inward the city, 98 percent had shark fin soup on their 2016 Lunar New Year's Day menus.
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