The Shark Fin Hunters. A documentary to protect the ocean’s top predator.

Tracking One of the World’s Bloodiest Trades: The Shark Fin Hunters 

Is a documentary to protect the ocean’s top predator by enforcing the Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act.

Evelyn La Madrid an environmental prosecutor investigates illegal shark fin trade in Peru.  Her and her team discover a large fin trading operation. The documentary is a powerful reminder to protect the ocean’s top predator. Enforcing the Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act. 

“What happens when you remove an apex predator from an ecosystem? The prey that were normally consumed or hunted by these predators begin to increase, to reproduce, and then they consume other things…It is going to change the species composition as we know it.”  Dr. Alicia Kuroiwa, an Oceana Marine Scientist in Peru, explains to Al Jazeera.