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Shark Meat Consumption
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- The meat of sharks and rays for long is consumed by tribal and coastal people in India.
- India has banned the live-finning of sharks and also the export of fins of all shark and ray species.
- Ten species are completely protected from any fishing and trade.
- But fishing of sharks and rays is continuing, driven in part by legal local meat consumption.
- Goa had the highest percentage of shark and ray meat selling restaurants (35.8 per cent), followed by Tamil Nadu (34.6 per cent) and Maharashtra (4.6 per cent).
- Goa and Tamil Nadu together accounted for 70 per cent of all restaurants serving shark meat in India.
- Some 251.6 tonnes of shark meat are sold every year in India’s restaurants.
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