Sharks are bundled on the floor of a seafood market in Samut Sakhon, Thailand during an auction.

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Sharks are bundled on the floor of a seafood market in Samut Sakhon, Thailand during an auction. Hundreds of sharks were auctioned; the fins are made into soup and shark meat is then processed into fish balls. Up 70 million sharks are killed every year for consumption as food mainly in Asia.

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Photo credit: © Arthur Jones Dionio / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: -catch, auction, ball, bycatch, consumption, environment, fin, finning, fish, fishing, meat, nature, ray, shark, sharks, soup