Preparation Genuine shark fin soup or stew is made with shark fins obtained from any of a variety of shark species.

Man Bites Shark

Larger sharks, such as the tiger shark and great white shark, may attack them.

In 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama signed the Shark Conservation Act, closing loopholes used to obtain shark fins.

It includes some of the most familiar species of sharks, such as the great white shark, as well as more unusual representatives, such as the goblin shark and the megamouth shark.

It became known as Simon's shark slime.

Look at that lovely, black shark slime.

Jim Toomey Learning from Sherman the shark

On 13 March 2004, a specimen of the rare and unusual species of shark, megamouth shark, was washed ashore on Gapang beach.

Also, anecdotal evidence points to a worldwide drop in shark fin prices and a move away from shark fishing in parts of Africa.

Go up in your boat and tag the shark.

My older brother borrowed money from a loan shark.

So I was thinking that must have come from the shark.

Tourists at the nearby café mistakenly take it for a shark.

Simon Berrow How do you save a shark you know nothing about?

We use a pole camera on the boat to actually film shark.

One is to try and work out the gender of the shark.

So this is possibly going to be my legacy Simon's shark slime.

In the past, Illinois has been a large importer of shark fins.

The varieties landed are tuna, bonito, mackerel, squid, shark, lobster and shrimp.

So by just rubbing the mop handle down the shark as it swam under the boat you see, here's a shark that's running under the boat here we managed to collect slime.

In 2000, there were 79 shark attacks reported worldwide, 11 of them fatal.

In sharks, it protects their eyes while the shark strikes at its prey.

Stromatolites can form in this way (see Shark Bay for a modern example).

The annual take of angel shark in 1977 was an estimated 147 kg.

But before I went out to photograph this component, I sort of wrestled with the notion of how do you make a picture of a dead shark that will resonate with readers You know, I think there's still a lot of people out there who think the only good shark is a dead shark.

The black, you can't really see this, but these are Norwegian basking shark hunting vessels, and the black line in the crow's nest signifies this is a shark vessel rather than a whaling vessel.

If you're more interested, we have a basking shark website now just set up.

To swim to the other island, Sami had to cross a shark infested lagoon.

There is especially high demand in foreign markets for tuna, shark, lobster and shrimp.

This is a shark that was actually landed in Howth just before Christmas, illegally, because you're not allowed to do that under E.U. law, and was actually sold for eight euros a kilo as shark steak.

And being able to tell the gender of a shark has got very important for things like policing the trade in basking shark and other species through societies, because it is illegal to trade any sharks.

Probably the best documented basking shark fishery in the world is that from Achill Island.

And lastly with this story, I also wanted to focus on baby sharks, shark nurseries.

I'll give you some examples. Lets talk about dentists, vasectomies, guns and shark attacks. Okay?

Calgary, Alberta, joined other Canadian cities in banning shark fin soup on 16 July 2012 .

All it was doing was breaking my arrows because the shark skin is just so strong.

Because this is a pelagic animal and it lives out in the deeper water, and because we weren't working on the bottom, I brought along a shark cage here, and my friend, shark biologist Wes Pratt is inside the cage.

A third of the size of the basking shark is their liver, and it's full of oil.

And as the shark came round, it would hit the net, the net would collapse on it.

The village moneylender, though often a shark, at least belongs to the community and knows his clients.

After gestating for 12 months, a bull shark may give birth to four to ten live young.

Otherwise, when the tide comes back in, Mexico will find itself struggling to survive in shark infested waters.

The largest predator in Norwegian waters is the sperm whale, and the largest fish is the basking shark.

There are a few dive operators on the island offering manta ray dives and also shark feeding dives.