Dead sharks ready to be transported

Shark meat

Great white shark fin cutting surface

Shark body, jaws removed

The scalloped hammerhead (Sphyrna lewini) is hunted for its fins for shark fin soup.

These fins drying on the ground are only a few dozen of the thousands of fins drying and stacked up for sale nearby.

The emblematic Hammerhead Shark is disappearing from Galapagos waters.

Shark fins are expensive commodities in asian culture, but the fins are far more valuable on a living shark maintaining a healthy ocean.

The shark fin industry removes 100 million sharks every year for soup, and more fins come from costa rica than any nation in the western hemisphere.

Any and all sharks are killed for soup, even the juveniles. These fins are so small it will take many more sharks to fill a bowl of soup.