The Hong Kong Shark Fin Lobby Are Starting To Crumble!

A small victory for anti-shark fin activism in Hong Kong.

Perhaps all the Facebook campaigns, media attention, and the general nascent revulsion against ocean rape, are starting to take effect.

'Super Star Seafood Restaurant' Group, a huge player in the local restaurant industry, is now offering 20% off shark fin dinners after 8:30pm. Could the shark-finners be feeling the heat? Has a tipping point in society been reached? Is demand falling? Are the dominoes starting to tumble? Seeing as today is World Ocean Day 2010, I would very much like to think so.

More good news. Our 'Man & Shark' video is finally completed. The short movie now has its very own soundtrack composed by the hugely talented London producer Dan Berkson. You can learn more about Dan's work here and here. And since our movie is no longer infringing Warner Brothers copyright with 'dummy' music (sorry Moby!), it is now allowed up onto YouTube. Yay!

Chinese version:-

English version:-

That's all for now, but there's lots more stuff going on in the stinky world of shark fin. Expect more news soon...

ALEX HOFFORD : HONG KONG CHINA PHOTOGRAPHER

can't bear to look

This is terrible. I couldn't actually watch the whole thing. Well done for bringing it to our attention.
But, like with the orang-utans, someone has to offer the people in the poor coastal communities an alternative that is viable.

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Thanks Gweipo

Eco tourism and shark diving would be one option, but the vastness of the coastlines of the Asian, South American and African continents kind of preclude that.

There is nothing wrong with small sustainable coastal fisheries keeping those local economies afloat, but in order for that to happen, the big fisheries corporations of Japan, Taiwan, China and South Korea absolutely must to be reined in first as they are taking all the fish!

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/oceans/pirate-fishing/

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that restaurant is offering

that restaurant is offering discount is probably because of the intense competition around that area. in a span of 6 months, more than 6 restaurants have opened there. and "super star" is the newest entrant there.

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Shark Fin City

Every day, when I walk from my flat to the MTR, I pass a restaurant called Shark Fin City in Olympic mall. It's always empty, and the Chinese girls working the door with thigh-high slits in their cheongsam always look bored. I'm usually not one to wish ill on a business, but I'm always secretly happy that they have no customers, since it's basically a restaurant dedicated to a cruel practice on a threatened species.
Shark's fin at regular restaurants, I get. (I don't eat it, but I get that its popular). But a whole restaurant called Shark Fin City?
But I don't think it's lack of popularity is due to any eco-awareness among the good people of West Kowloon. I think it's because it's next to a big, popular Cafe de Coral, where you can get a good lunch for HK $30!

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Shark Fin City

I know that branch, we did some undercover filming there once. There's also branch in Causeway Bay, Times Square. You may be interested to know that 'Shark Fin City' advertises quite heavily on the official HKTB tourist maps of Hong Kong that they give out to arriving tourists at the airport. Sickening, really. They need to be closed down, I agree...

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