"Sharks are in trouble worldwide, for these animals to survive, we need to reduce fishing effort by half and have a global ban on shark finning." Since the mid-1980s, shark fishing has grown rapidly, driven by a rising demand in China for shark fin soup, a highly prized symbol of wealth. According to Ransom A.Myers, (Killam Chair of Ocean Studies at Dalhousie University), the Gulf of Thailand has lost 60 percent of its large fin-fish sharks and skates during the first 5 years of industrialized trawl fishing