Does shark finning happen in Australia?
The practice of finning and discarding shark carcasses in illegal in Australia though there is a problem with illegal foreign fishing vessels finning in Australian waters. Australia is far from blameless in this matter though as hundreds of tonnes of sharks are caught for their fins with the government’s blessing every year. In NSW, regulations are such that what are eventually landed are shark carcasses that serve as architectures for fins. The carcasses are headed and gutted so that the bare minimum required by the law remains.
