Social, Economic, and Regulatory Drivers of the Shark Fin Trade

By S. Clarke, E. Milner‐Gulland, T. Bjørndal. Marine Resource Economics, 2007

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Subfields: Nature and Landscape Conservation

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• The conservation status of pelagic sharks and rays : report of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group Pelagic Shark Red List Workshop (2009, background): “However, it has become increasingly clear that the international demand for shark fins is the driving force behind most shark fisheries today (Clarke et al. 2007).”
• Business partner or simple catch? The economic value of the sicklefin lemon shark in French Polynesia (2011, unknown): “Estimates of the world annual revenues from the fin trade (including the sale of shark carcasses and other by-products) range from USD400 million to USD550 million (Clarke et al. 2007).”
• Global shark currency: the distribution, frequency, and economic value of shark ecotourism (2011, background): “In 2004, the average market price for a set of shark fins (from the family Carcharhinidae) was valued at ∼US$50 (Clarke, Milner-Gulland, Bjorndal, 2007 ).”
• Extinction risk and bottlenecks in the conservation of charismatic marine species (2012, background): “…the most comprehensive multilateral species-protection agreement for species threatened by international trade, and many marine taxa, including those in Finding Nemo, are subject to international trade in shells, fins, live reef fish, and for aquaria (e.g., Sadovy et al. 2003; Clarke et al. 2007).”
• You can swim but you can't hide: the global status and conservation of oceanic pelagic sharks and rays (2008, background): “The high value of shark fins, coupled with poor catch documentation and the lack of international regulation of catches, can easily lead to over-exploitation of oceanic pelagic sharks (Clarke et al., 2007).”
• Socio-economic value and community benefits from shark-diving tourism in Palau: A sustainable use of reef shark populations (2012, unknown): “However, the growing demand for shark products, principally for shark fin soup, threatens the future of these valuable industries (Clarke et al., 2007).”
• Extinction risk and conservation of the world’s sharks and rays (2013, background): “Fins, in particular, have become one of the most valuable seafood commodities: it is estimated that the fins of between 26 and 73 million individuals, worth US$400-550 million, are traded each year (Clarke et al., 2007).”