\nBernard Becker was an American professor emeritus of ophthalmology and visual sciences at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He was born in New York City.
"}{"type":"standard","title":"Shark fin trading in Costa Rica","displaytitle":"Shark fin trading in Costa Rica","namespace":{"id":0,"text":""},"wikibase_item":"Q7489824","titles":{"canonical":"Shark_fin_trading_in_Costa_Rica","normalized":"Shark fin trading in Costa Rica","display":"Shark fin trading in Costa Rica"},"pageid":30292585,"thumbnail":{"source":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Shark_fins.jpg/330px-Shark_fins.jpg","width":320,"height":459},"originalimage":{"source":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/48/Shark_fins.jpg","width":636,"height":913},"lang":"en","dir":"ltr","revision":"1248346396","tid":"27858255-7dfe-11ef-b324-6417b69b086b","timestamp":"2024-09-29T01:00:01Z","content_urls":{"desktop":{"page":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_fin_trading_in_Costa_Rica","revisions":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_fin_trading_in_Costa_Rica?action=history","edit":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_fin_trading_in_Costa_Rica?action=edit","talk":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shark_fin_trading_in_Costa_Rica"},"mobile":{"page":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_fin_trading_in_Costa_Rica","revisions":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:History/Shark_fin_trading_in_Costa_Rica","edit":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark_fin_trading_in_Costa_Rica?action=edit","talk":"https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shark_fin_trading_in_Costa_Rica"}},"extract":"Shark fin trading in Costa Rica, or shark finning, is an illegal practice in the country. It poses a serious threat to shark populations besides the organized crime involvement in the practice within Costa Rica. The trade in Costa Rica is vigorously controlled by the Taiwanese mafia because of the high value of shark fins in restaurants in the Pacific Rim countries such as Taiwan, Hong Kong and China where Shark fin soup can cost up to $100 a serving in top restaurants. Some 95% of shark fin trading activity in Costa Rica culminates in the docks of Puntarenas on the western coast, notably Inversiones Cruz Dock and Harezan Dock, which are often privately run by the Taiwanese. The industry in Costa Rica took off from the 1970s as a result of the growth in demand from the emerging wealthy Tiger economies of the Asia-Pacific for shark fin as a delicacy. By the 1990s, the shark fin industry in Costa Rica had become one of the world's most important in shark finning, especially as a major cargo-unloading point for international fleets because of tax laws and government corruption in cracking down on the trade.","extract_html":"
Shark fin trading in Costa Rica, or shark finning, is an illegal practice in the country. It poses a serious threat to shark populations besides the organized crime involvement in the practice within Costa Rica. The trade in Costa Rica is vigorously controlled by the Taiwanese mafia because of the high value of shark fins in restaurants in the Pacific Rim countries such as Taiwan, Hong Kong and China where Shark fin soup can cost up to $100 a serving in top restaurants. Some 95% of shark fin trading activity in Costa Rica culminates in the docks of Puntarenas on the western coast, notably Inversiones Cruz Dock and Harezan Dock, which are often privately run by the Taiwanese. The industry in Costa Rica took off from the 1970s as a result of the growth in demand from the emerging wealthy Tiger economies of the Asia-Pacific for shark fin as a delicacy. By the 1990s, the shark fin industry in Costa Rica had become one of the world's most important in shark finning, especially as a major cargo-unloading point for international fleets because of tax laws and government corruption in cracking down on the trade.
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