A Google search revealed that Malaysia is ranked among the top 10 countries in the world that contribute the depletion of sharks.
Over the past few years, the campaign with “Say No To Shark Fin Soup” from various countries support each other from the internet to discourage people from consuming the shark fin soup which is the biggest contributor of shark depletion. The campaign also seeks to remind people about the shark’s role in the ecosystem of the ocean.
This effort becomes more urgent when divers at Mabul Island of Sabah witnessed the killing of sharks.
The founder of the facebook group “Save the Shark from a Bowl of Soup” Kirk Keong Lee went to Mabul Island to see it for himself.
At there, he managed to see 6 or 7 sharks about 2 metres long on land and another 4 or 5 in the water that had already been finned.
The fisherman cut off the fin, head and teeth and dumped the body into the sea.
Kirk Keong Lee is supported by the huge online community to ban the shark finning.
One of the member of online community in Kota Kinabalu “Save the Shark from a Bowl of Soup”, named Aderick Chong met with Minister of Science, Tourism and Environment to lobby for a ban on sharks finning.
It was a small but significant step to push the campaign forward.
Chong seems swimming against the tide as there is nothing legislation to make sharks finning illegal.
He continues to knock on the doors of government agencies, Chinese Chambers, fisheries authorities and academics to lobby for sharks to be listed as protected animals.
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