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Fin Soup Threatens Survival Of Ocean Sharks -Study

Overfishing partly caused by booming demand for shark fin soup, a delicacy in some Asian countries, is threatening the existence of 11 kinds of ocean sharks, an international study showed on Thursday. The fish, often seen as ferocious sea predators, suffer from largely unregulated fishing for their valuable fins, said the report into 21 species of sharks and rays living in the open oceans. The experts who wrote the study, organised by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, also urged governments to quickly impose catch limits.