><i>... Canada is the largest importer of shark fins outside of Asia.</i><p>Wow, TIL. Thank goodness then, that's likely a substantial cut.<p>Worth nothing tho that the USA, also a G20 country, has had arguably similar bans since either 2000 or 2011: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_finning#United_States" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_finning#United_States</a>
There is several species of shark which is critically endangered, many other are listed as vulnerable. Please try also and help conservation by consuming right, never eat shark fin soup.<p>List of threatened sharks species
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_threatened_sharks" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_threatened_sharks</a>
Does shark fins actually have any real nutritional values or it's just pure myth? It doesn't really matter though, population of some shark species has decreased up to 80% in the last 50 years so this practice just has to stop.
> Canada becomes first G20 country to ban trade in shark fins<p>I'm not a native English speaker and was expecting s/in/with since I read you are not allowed to use shark fins as transportation for trade.
"it’s an important [step] and sends a signal to the world that this practice is wrong, has to be stopped, and Canada will not participate in the import of these fins anymore.”<p>i don't get it.<p>why can't they be fished sustainably like anything else? why is it wrong to eat a shark fin but ok to trawl fish, or to wear a jacket filled with down plucked from a goose? this just seems like propaganda.<p><a href="https://www.oceana.ca/en/blog/how-seafood-caught-look-fishing-gear-types-canada" rel="nofollow">https://www.oceana.ca/en/blog/how-seafood-caught-look-fishin...</a>
I never really understood what looks to me like an obsession with preserving endangered species. Maybe it does have to do with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarcity_(social_psychology)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarcity_(social_psychology)</a>