I was really sickened by the shark fin soup article Dr.Conrad posted and I decided to do a little digging to see if I could find out anything else and I came across this article in National Geographic.
This article also takes about the outragous behaviour of shark finning however it also talks about a new DNA study that they have started. While living in Hong Kong Clarke was investigating the shark-fin trade. She was able to communicate with the Cantonese speaking people and convinced them to allow her into the warehouse and gave her small samples from the fins, she was also allowed to watch shark-fin auctions where she recorded prices. She wanted to see if Chinese names correlated with specfic sharks. As fate would have it conservationalists showed films on finning and a backlash from the shark finning community resulted and she was blacklisted. "Apparently they made a poster of me that said, 'Don't talk to this woman," Clarke said. This was ok because she had finished her thesis about shark fin DNA by this point.
To read the full article which is quite interesting and informative go to:
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