A game warden and his K9 colleague discovered almost 381 whole shark fins and 29.2 pounds of frozen shark fins at a seafood restaurant in San Antonio, Texas
Kevin Winters, one of two Texas Game Wardens who discovered the illegal fins on April 13, told CNN that the case has not yet been submitted to the district attorney's office. The fins were all taken as evidence, according to a Facebook post from the Texas Game Wardens. Some of the fins came from blacktip sharks, which are found throughout the Gulf of Mexico, although it isn't clear that the sharks originated from the gulf, Winters says.
Shark fin soup is a traditional and often expensive delicacy served in restaurants worldwide. But the persistent hunting of sharks for their fins has led populations of some sharks to decline as much as 90%, according to a 2018 study in Marine Policy.This is the first known shark fin case in San Antonio, according to Winters. "It is pretty significant that in a city that's one-and-a-half or two hours from the coast, we're still finding" shark fins for sale, he said.
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