‘Cruel, wasteful’: Dakar port a hotspot for illegal shark fins

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The Dakar port has become a hotspot for illegal shark finning, a practice largely prohibited due to its cruelty where sharks are finned and often discarded alive. Regulatory zones and countries continue to combat this environmental and wildlife regulatory violation.

Finning, the practice of removing fins and casting the rest of the shark overboard, often alive, is largely prohibited across a variety of regulatory zones and countries.