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A shipment of dried shark fins seized this month by Hong Kong customs officials. The haul, weighing 26 tonnes, was the biggest in Hong Kong’s history. Photograph: Nora Tam/SCMP/Zuma/Alamy
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The recent seizure of the biggest shipment of illegal fins in Hong Kong history shows the taste for shark is still going strong...Fins are lucrative, fetching as much as HK$6,800 (£715) per catty (604.8g, or about 21oz), and the trade is big business. Hong Kong is the largest shark fin importer in the world, and responsible for about half of the global trade.

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