Can't just point finfger at Hong Kong. Shark fin soup is a popular delicacy in Asia as a whole. In fact, just Bangkok itself is full of restaurants specialized in gourmet shark fin soup. Not to mention Singapore and Malaysia. It is also an expansive item in Japan.
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Well, I don't have particular love for sharks. In fact, they scare me most of the time when I wind surf and skin dive. Fishmen hate their guts coz many of them killed by sharks annually. In fact, the fishmen in the Bahamas hate them so badly, as a revenge , they stuff sea urchuns in their throats so they die slowly in pain and argony.
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Not to get religeous here, but there a saying that becaue they prey on the other species, God punishes sharks by making them sleepless. A shark must continues to swin in order to get oxygen in their system to survive. 5.39.217.76; ?( @) R: R' y5 x% N0 B7 \
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However, every life has its rights to live and die in dignity. In the past, when fishermen accidently caught a shark in their net they would clip their fins--alive--and then let them back in the water. This practice had been going on for decades until some animal rights group brought it to the world's attention. It's quite common in the past to see longliners in Guam, Samoa, Taheiti, Hawaii ports had shark fins being wind dry on their deck.
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Well, I guess it's fair that fishmen can continue to hunt shark as long as they keep everything in tact. I'd definitely like to see the price of shark fin soup go down a bit.
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So next time you go "gor dai hoi", go to Lung Kee and get a nice Chiken Shakfin Pot for dinner. And of course, you can use that to gargle again when the Hengsang Indeex go up to 19,000 points. Haha! |
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