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Cutting off the part that swims and discarding the part that breathes.
means The practice of slicing fins from sharks and dumping the still-living body back into the sea.
from From fin plus the verb-making -ing; popularized by conservation reports as the fin trade exploded with demand for shark fin soup in the late twentieth century.
ScaleUp to 73 million sharks killed yearly.
EconomicsFins worth far more than the whole fish.
Banned widelyOutlawed by many nations, still rampant offshore.