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A home-made Brazilian moqueca with shark, shrimps and vegetables. Unlike Asian countries, shark fin soup has virtually no market in Brazil, so the controversial practice of fining is very rare in the country. However, a common controversy is that shark fins are often sold in Asia at high prices, while their carcasses are sold to Brazil very ...
Imitation shark fin soup originated from Temple Street in Hong Kong during the 1950s and 1960s. [72] Few people at that time could afford genuine shark fin soup, but street vendors collected the broken parts of shark fins discarded by Chinese restaurants and cooked them with mushrooms, egg, and pork, as well as soy sauce and other ingredients.
Anti shark fin protesters at the FedEx depot in Hong Kong's Kennedy Town 3 July 2016. The World Wide Fund for Nature on 8 March 2018 reported, "The volume of shark fin imported into Hong Kong has declined from 10,210 tonnes in 2007 to 4,979 tonnes in 2017, a drop of over 50 per cent."
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China's late-20th-century economic reforms produced a middle class that increased demand for traditional luxury items like shark fins. [1] Chinese traditional medicine ascribes various restorative and healing effects to the fins, and the soup is considered a delicacy, costing as much as US$100 per bowl.
Shark Fins Act 2023 (c. 22) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom designed to ban the import and export of shark fins. Prior to legislation, the practice of shark finning has been banned in the United Kingdom in 2003, [1] and in 2009 the "fins naturally attached (FNA)" policy has been enforced to combat illegal shark finning in UK waters, as well as UK vessels worldwide.
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Shark fin dumpling (Chinese: 魚翅餃) is a dim sum dish in Hong Kong. It is a form of Dumpling in Superior Soup ( Chinese : 灌湯餃 ), a dumpling with gelatinous broth inside. As with shark fin soup , the shark fin content is often replaced with an imitation.