[quote=http://www.scientificamerican.com/artic ... -a-plunge/]In 2013, the environmental group WildAid reported that demand for shark-fin soup in China had dropped by 50 to 70 percent, offering some hope for the estimated 25% of species of sharks and their relatives, that are threatened with extinction. Many experts thought those numbers sounded too good to be true.
A new analysis of worldwide customs and trade data published in the journal Biological Conservation confirms that shark-fin trade has dropped by approximately 25 percent over the last decade “Although we can’t say that we fully understand the scale or the cause of the shark fin trade decline in China, it seems safe to conclude that demand for fins is waning, and that sounds like good news for sharks,”? says global shark fin trade expert Shelley Clarke, a co-author on this study.[/quote]