Global study showed, on Friday, that the sharks that swim freely in the ocean, probably soon become valued as areas of tourist attraction rather than when they get caught, cutters and served in soup.
The study urged better protection for sharks from Australia to the Caribbean to reduce hunting an estimated 38 million fish annually are caught to meet the demand for shark fin soup, which serves mainly in China.
He said the main author of the study, Andres Cisneros Montemayor, of the University of British Columbia in Canada, "We hope that people realize that sharks are not of value only when they are submitted to the dishes."
According to the study published in the journal Oryx - the International Journal of Environmental Conservation Tourism Show that sharks produce about 314 million dollars annually, and is expected to exceed 780 million dollars in the next twenty years.
The study is one of many studies about how to help the world's fisheries, damaged by pollution and overfishing.
The study says that this type of tourism attracts 600 thousand tourists a year to see the types of sharks hammer to great white sharks, providing 10 thousand jobs in 25 countries.
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