日批在线视频_内射毛片内射国产夫妻_亚洲三级小视频_在线观看亚洲大片短视频_女性向h片资源在线观看_亚洲最大网

chinadaily.com.cn
left corner left corner
China Daily Website

Shark fins on factory roof fan outrage

Updated: 2013-01-04 08:29
By Beh Lih Yi in Hong Kong ()

Hong Kong conservationists expressed outrage Thursday after images emerged of a factory rooftop covered in thousands of freshly sliced shark fins, as they called for curbs on the "barbaric" trade.

The southern Chinese city is one of the world's biggest markets for shark fins, which are used to make soup that is an expensive staple at Chinese banquets and viewed by many Asians as a rare delicacy.

Shark fins on factory roof fan outrage
Activist Gary Stokes, who has visited the site, estimated there are 15,000 to 20,000 fins laid out to dry on the rooftop on Hong Kong island ahead of an anticipated surge in demand over Lunar New Year in February this year.

"This is shocking," the Hong Kong coordinator for conservation group Sea Shepherd told AFP, saying it was the first time he has seen such a massive hoarding of shark fins in one place in the Asian financial hub.

"This is the most graphic, brutal and barbaric part of the industry - the element of chopping a shark's fin off and throwing it back into the water is horrific and inhumane," he added.

Stokes believed that traders moved to dry the shark fins on secluded rooftops instead of sidewalks - as they have done in the past - to avoid public anger.

Campaigns against consuming shark fins have gained ground in Hong Kong in recent years, after major hotel chains decided to drop the soup from the menus, and home carrier Cathay Pacific said in September it would stop carrying unsustainable sourced shark products on its cargo flights.

Stokes urged Hong Kong authorities to ban the trade: "As long as there is no protection for the sharks, the (demand) will just keep going on and on."

About 73 million sharks are killed every year, with Hong Kong importing about 9,070 metric tons annually for the past decade, according to environmental group WWF.

Shark fins on factory roof fan outrage

Shark fins drying in the sun cover the roof of a building in Hong Kong on Wednesday. Environmentalists have raised concerns that the overharvesting of fins is causing an environmental calamity. Hong Kong is one of the world's biggest markets for shark fins, which are used to make expensive soup at Chinese banquets. [Photo/Agencies]

The number of threatened shark species has soared from 15 in 1996 to more than 180 in 2010.

It was not immediately clear who owns the thousands of unprocessed fins on the rooftop, which was unguarded when visited by an AFP journalist on Thursday.

A spokeswoman from the government's conservation department told AFP that authorities could not act because the fins were on private property.

Silvy Pun, the Hong Kong director for US-based Shark Savers, criticized the Hong Kong government for not acting to protect the dwindling shark population, after neighboring Taiwan banned shark finning this year while the Chinese mainland plans to stop serving the soup at official banquets.

"The government must do something. The government is being very laid back and trying to avoid confrontation with the shark fin traders," Pun said.

Trade in shark fins is not regulated in Hong Kong except for three species - basking shark, great white shark and whale shark - where the trade is restricted under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, to which Hong Kong is a signatory.

AFP

 

 
...
...
...
主站蜘蛛池模板: 中文字幕亚洲精品 | 成人免费看片' | 一级国产黄色片 | 大香蕉毛片| 神马久久av | 97国产精品久久 | 性欧美一区二区 | 午夜精品免费观看 | 久射久 | 久久老女人 | 日韩有码在线播放 | 一本久道久久 | 18videosex性欧美69 | 久久久小视频 | 黄色av一级片 | 亚洲精品91在线 | 日韩国产欧美一区 | 亚洲二级片 | 黄色一级免费片 | 在线免费看毛片 | 亚洲一区自拍偷拍 | 天天草天天射 | 中文在线а√在线8 | 91操碰| 在线中文字幕日韩 | 亚洲色图都市激情 | 亚洲精品免费在线观看 | 91成人福利 | 一区av在线 | 亚洲青涩在线 | 久久综合免费 | 手机看片日韩欧美 | 色婷婷九月 | 亚洲一区和二区 | 亚洲91久久 | 草久久| 色综合久久88 | a级片在线观看 | 一区二区三区视频观看 | 人人av在线 | 亚洲精品xxxx |