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If you're in Los Angeles and the mood strikes,
you can easily order shark fin soup from China Gate
Restaurant for $16.95 -- even though it's against the
law. California is one of 12 states that bans the sale of
shark fins -- but that hasn't stopped a lot of restaurants
from catering to the still-significant demand for shark
fin soup in the U.S.
Every year, the Washington D.C.-based nonprofit
Animal Welfare Institute updates its list of restaurants
that serve shark fin soup and notifies state enforcement
agencies. But so far, the bans haven't stopped restaurants
in at least 10 of the 12 states. During the past two
years, at least five bills relating to the country's shark
fin trade have been introduced in Congress. All five
died, leaving the fate of sharks in the U.S. uncertain.
(Two new bills were introduced last month.)...
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