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For a documentary that was supposed to show how widespread finning was, it unwittingly made the opposite point.

In Taiwan, we see fins and sharks coming onto shore together. Ramsay tries to make a big point how the number of fins don't match the number of sharks but duh... sharks have multiple fins.

In Costa Rica, for a boat that was out on sea for an entire month, Ramsay can only show one shark that was finned and even then it wasn't that wasteful cause the fisherman used the rest of the shark for bait.

Finning is terrible and wasteful and should be stopped, but its not as widespread as shark activists portray it to be. Its like PETA releasing a video of the abuses of 1 slaughterhouse, and then claiming that is what every slaughter house does.

The shark activists will never bring up the truth that the fins being sold have been decreasing for a number of years, and new laws and regulations that countries like Taiwan and Costa Rica have passed about landing sharks and fins together are playing a role in that decrease. It shows you can decrease the fins getting sold without necessarily implementing a total ban on shark fin soup.

The footage of finning Ramsay showed is years old and increasingly looks outdated because he couldn't find any new footage of sharks getting finned with the exception of that 1 fin in Costa Rica. If finning is so widespread, then shouldn't we expected to have seen more than a single case of finning?

That old finning footage was shocking, but things change, sometimes for the better. Look at the way Hudson Valley Farm used to treat its ducks, practices that the EU specifically had called out in its criticism of foie gras production. But, Hudson Valley Farm later improved its husbandry where now foie gras supporters point to Hudson Valley Farm as a shining light for foie gras production. Just because sharks were once commonly finned doesn't necessarily mean its still true today, especially as more and more countries pass laws and regulations that ban finning.

Ramsay makes a big deal how 100 million sharks are killed every year for their fins, but again, that's a big lie. That 100 million number has been made up because its big and easy to remember. The best estimates were 38 million fins being sold, with no data how many of those were finned, and those numbers have only decreased since then.