高中英语 VOA常速听力2012年08月合辑（文本）Genetic-Analyses-Show-Endangered-Species-in-Shark-Fin-Soup素材.docVIP

高中英语 VOA常速听力2012年08月合辑（文本）Genetic-Analyses-Show-Endangered-Species-in-Shark-Fin-Soup素材 Each year, fishermen catch millions of sharks, cut off their fins, and dump the bodies into the ocean to die. The fins are used to make shark fin soup, an Asian delicacy sold in many countries. Recently, a team of scientists and environmental groups collected soup from restaurants across the United States and analyzed the soups genetic make-up. They found endangered species on the menu. More than 73 million sharks are killed every year, mostly for their fins, to make shark fin soup, industry experts and conservationists say. Shark fin soup is a common offering in many Asian restaurants around the world. A bowl of shark fin soup is being served at a Chinese restaurant in San Franciscos Chinatown, California, February 14, 2011.The Field Museum in Chicago and the Pew Environment Group looked at 51 soup samples in 14 U.S. cities. DNA analyses identified eight shark species, some of them endangered. Liz Karan, who heads the global shark conservation campaign at the Pew Environment Group.?°The major finding is that there are endangered species in shark fin soup sold in the United States. One sample taken from Boston had scalloped hammerhead, Scalloped hammerhead is considered endangered by the International Union of Conservation?ˉs red list of endangered species.?± Shark finning - cutting off the fins while the shark is still alive and throwing the body overboard - is banned in the United States. But shark fishing and the import of fins are allowed. So far, only five U.S. states have banned shark fin products. ?°Overfishing of sharks is a global problem. Hong Kong is currently the hub of the shark fin trade, and there are about 80 countries that contribute to that trade,?± said Karan. Workers cut off fins from frozen carcasses of a sharks at a fish processing plant in Kaohsiung, southern Taiwan, November 15, 2011.Over the last 60 years, the worlds shark population has plum