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.

A grizzly scene of discarded shark and ray heads in a ditch near Laguna Manuela fishing camp.

A drowned soupfin shark is hauled up in an empty halibut net.

Whale shark gills

Caribbean reef shark

Caribbean reef shark

Shark swimming over seabed

Shark research