As one of the top predators, shark controls the distribution of marine animal populations in food chains. But the fate of the white tooth was bet only to appoint the glove for certain circles by consuming the fin.
Indonesia is one of the world’s largest shark fish traps. From Traffic.org data one of the institutions that monitor wildlife trades in the world represents during the year 2000 - 2010, Indonesia is the world's largest shark catcher. This massive disclosure due to the spike in market demand for shark products. The product is exported in fin shape, liver oil, skin, even meat.
In Indramayu precisely in the village of Pabean dictator for example, many citizens try to benefit by being a hyu fin drying processing and then sold to the exporter in Jakarta and Surabaya to meet the market in Asia. They got the supply of shark fins from the fishermen that squeeze around the sea of Java and Natuna. For super quality shark fins measuring 10 to 20 centimeters for sale at Rp. 1.5 million to 3 million as per export standard. In a day, the shark fin processing is able to get about 100 kilograms of shark fins from fishermen living in the Fish Place (TPI) Karangsong.
The shark fin is sent to different countries in Asia one of the only to Hongkong, there is a shark fin processed into a soup at a fairly expensive price, until certain people who are able to consume the soup from the shark fin. Even one of the NGOs who gone SOShark (Save Our Shark) said, Sharks are only for the sole gang, because it is considered a hiu fin soup is a historical food from the ancient Chinese nation of the shark soup to be the santapan for the king or royal family.
While in the European Union itself has started to reduce consuming the shark fin soup because many villages from the NGO and conducting the meeting of The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) in Bangkok, Thailand and announced seven species of sharks that were rarely killed. The loss of sharks is believed by experts will damage the balance of marine ecosystems in the world and cause the explosion of the amount of jellyfish. Some types of sharks are mostly captured in the water accidentally, but see the trademark value of the fin and the shark meat, then usually the fisherman just kills it for sale.
Photo and Text : Dedhez Fencinga
