Lone Star State Attempts To Ban Shark Fin Sales

• The practice of shark finning is detrimental to the Gulf ecosystem and is inhumane.
• Tens of millions of sharks are killed each year simply to supply the wasteful demand for shark fin soup. Shark populations cannot sustain current slaughter rates.
• Sharks are apex predators whose survival affects all other marine species and our oceans’ ecosystems.
• Unlike other fish species, sharks produce few pups, and thus, many species are endangered and/or threatened due to the fin trade.