Shark finning remains a major cause of suffering and mortality for reef and open-ocean shark species globally.
Shark finning causes extreme suffering: fins are removed while animals are alive, then they are thrown overboard to drown or bleed to death. Even whole-shark catch for food causes suffering through trawl entanglement, air exposure, and crushing. Shark population collapse threatens entire marine ecosystems. Welfare and conservation converge in opposing shark finning.