finning
Removing shark appendages
Finning is the practice of cutting fins from sharks and discarding the body, often while the animal is still alive.
The fins supply the Asian market for shark fin soup.
Conservation groups condemn finning as wasteful and cruel, and many jurisdictions have banned it.
Separately, finning describes any movement involving fins: The diver was finning slowly toward the reef.
Cooked liquid dish
- cartilageFlexible connective body tissue
- squaleneTriterpene from liver oil
- delicacyRefined sensitivity or rarity
- cuisineCharacteristic cooking style
traditional · luxury · status · consumption · trade · market · dried · broth
To exist or dwell
- discardDeliberately throw out
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- inhumaneCallously causing suffering
- brutalSavagely harsh or severe
wasteful · alive · thrown overboard · animal welfare · sentience · pain · mutilation · exploitation
Official restriction on something
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
- enforcementCompelling compliance with rules
endangered species · extinction risk · biodiversity · wildlife protection · sanctuary · marine reserve · CITES · treaty
Seize or snag
- slicePortion cut off
- removalAct of taking away
- decksideAdjacent to the deck
- bycatchNon-target species caught accidentally
longline · trawler · fisherman · fleet · vessel · processing · quota · landing
Force driving movement forward
- kickFoot-delivered strike
- flutterRapid light movement
- dolphin kickUndulating leg swimming technique
- flipperMarine animal's swimming limb
streamline · thrust · glide · technique · movement · coordination · power · speed
soup
Cooked liquid dish
- cartilageFlexible connective body tissue
- squaleneTriterpene from liver oil
- delicacyRefined sensitivity or rarity
cuisine · traditional · luxury · status · consumption · trade · market · dried · broth · texture
live
To exist or dwell
- discardDeliberately throw out
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- inhumaneCallously causing suffering
brutal · wasteful · alive · thrown overboard · animal welfare · sentience · pain · mutilation · exploitation · dying
ban
Official restriction on something
- legislationOfficial enactment of statutes
- prohibitionAuthoritative legal ban
- regulationOfficial rules governing conduct
enforcement · endangered species · extinction risk · biodiversity · wildlife protection · sanctuary · marine reserve · CITES · treaty · moratorium
catch
Seize or snag
bycatch · longline · trawler · fisherman · fleet · vessel · processing · quota · landing · dockside
propulsion
Force driving movement forward
- kickFoot-delivered strike
- flutterRapid light movement
- dolphin kickUndulating leg swimming technique
flipper · streamline · thrust · glide · technique · movement · coordination · power · speed · underwater
- swimmingswimming, swimmer, swimmers, swim team, swim teams
- metal flawscracks, porosity, voids, inclusions, shrinkage
finningcatch-and-release
Fishing without keeping
sustainable fishing · sustainable harvesting · subsistence fishing · traditional fishing
finningcatch-and-release
Fishing without keeping
shark conservation · wildlife rehabilitation · marine sanctuaries
finningshark conservation
Protecting marine apex predators
wildlife preservation · anti-poaching · species recovery · ocean conservation · species protection
- shark finningRemoving fins, discarding carcass