Meanwhile, the other characters are talking about shark fin soup.

Shark fin soup is a status symbol in Asian countries, and is considered healthy and full of nutrients.

I do three or four strips after that where we explore the finning issue and the shark fin soup issue.

They have a single dorsal fin, placed far back on the body, almost opposite to the anal fin.

The anal fin and the bottom portion of the caudal fin are light brown to dark red.

Alarm over overfishing

The crocodile shark ( Pseudocarcharias kamoharai ) is a species of mackerel shark and the only member of the family Pseudocarchariidae.

The anal fin has two or three spines, and the pelvic fins one spine and five soft rays.

They eat shark.

Whale shark in Mozambique.

The perception of sharks as dangerous animals has been popularized by publicity given to a few isolated unprovoked attacks, such as the Jersey Shore shark attacks of 1916, and through popular fictional works about shark attacks, such as the Jaws film series.

Here's a dolphin where the fin's been re attached.

The pelvic fin is anterior to the tail fin.

Many shark species are threatened with extinction.

We didn't see a single shark.

We can save the white shark.

Tom is a shark.

Have you ever seen a shark?

Look at that lovely, black shark slime.

Turns out that this is a Galapagos Shark.

That's a 12 foot long giant sixgill shark.

Shark finning involves removing the fin with a hot metal blade.

He was attacked by a shark.

Tom was attacked by a shark.

Hey there, boys! Where's that shark?

Tom got attacked by a shark.

The princess was eaten by the shark.

Out of more than 470 species, only four have been involved in a significant number of fatal, unprovoked attacks on humans the great white, oceanic whitetip, tiger, and bull sharks.

There's only 8,000 basking shark females in the world?

It became known as Simon's shark slime.

Suddenly we saw a shark swimming our way.

By contrast, most bony fish possess a homocercal caudal fin.

The great white shark is also capable of speed bursts.

Fishermen capture live sharks, fin them, and dump the finless animal back into the water.

Jim Toomey Learning from Sherman the shark

We also talked about the White Shark Cafe.

There's a shark in the water, she whispered.

Generally sharks have only one layer of tesserae, but the jaws of large specimens, such as the bull shark, tiger shark, and the great white shark, have two to three layers or more, depending on body size.

In 2010, Greenpeace International added the school shark, shortfin mako shark, mackerel shark, tiger shark and spiny dogfish to its seafood red list, a list of common supermarket fish that are often sourced from unsustainable fisheries.

Female residents characteristically have rounded dorsal fin tips that terminate in a sharp corner.

Their dorsal and anal fins are long and continuous, with the dorsal fin extending forward onto the head.

The tail is relatively short, laterally flattened, and surrounded by a thin fin.

The dorsal and pectoral fins each are supported by a sharp, slime covered barbed spine.

So this scavenger comes in, which is a giant sixgill shark.

Fortunately, the shark bite didn't hit any major arteries.