Help save the sharks! Shark fin soup is popular in northern China.

帮助拯救鲨鱼！鱼翅汤在中国北方很流行。

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The greater threat to sharks comes not from fishermen, but from Asian gastronomes whose idea of a treat is shark-fin soup.

鲨鱼更大的威胁不是来自渔民，而是来自亚洲的美食家们，他们的人生一大快事就是喝鲨鱼翅汤。

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Still, the greater threat to sharks comes not from game fishermen but from Asian gastronomes whose idea of a treat is shark’s-fin soup.

但是对鲨鱼更大威胁不是来自渔民，而是来自亚洲的美食家们，他们的人生一大快事就是想喝鲨鱼翅汤。

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These include polar bears, rays and sharks that are heavily fished for shark fin soup.

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John McCosker, chairman of aquatic biology at the California Academy of Sciences, estimates that 90% of the sharks that once inhabited the world's oceans have now disappeared, due to overfishing and shark finning a practice in which sharks are captured and their fins are sliced off for use in shark-fin soup.

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"Sharks are still hunted in some waters as part of the finning industry where, horribly enough, they take the fins for shark fin soup and discard the rest of the body - that is the biggest threat to all sharks worldwide, " she said.

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