August 6, 2019 — The fight for sharks is converging on Florida.
With the new legislative session next in September, conservation groups are pushing for measures at both the state and federal level to ban one of the largest threats to the shark population – the fin trade.
Between 100 million and 200 million sharks are killed every year. An estimated 73 million of those are killed for their fins.
“The shark fin trade is a global market for shark fins,” Trish Albano, a shark researcher at the University of Miami’s Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, told NBC 6 South Florida. “The shark fin is being used to make shark fin soup.”