What can you do to save the sharks? How can you get involved?

• Don’t eat shark fin soup—refuse to eat at restaurants that serve it; encourage others to do the same.
• Generally, do not consume shark products. It's not just the soup. Do not eat shark steaks or meat, do not eat imitation crab, lobster or shrimp (it often contains shark).
• Often shark is relabeled as other types of fish, like rock salmon, white fish, included in fish patties like pollock, or hidden from consumers – as shark ingredients are not always labeled like chondroitin (German: Chondroitinsulfat) which can be made from shark cartilage.
• Keep sharks out of your cosmetics. Never use any products (including makeup, lotions and deodorants) that contain Squalene (German: Squalen) - shark liver oil. In fact, just buy cruelty free. Squalene is also often used in vaccinations.
• Don't buy luxuary leather products like galuchat.
• Dive and snorkel with sharks. The more money that goes into shark tourism the more people will realize the value of keeping sharks alive. Due to ecotourism an alive shark is worth a lot more than is a dead shark. For reasons explained in "Dangerous?" you should however not choose to cage-dive.
• Learn about sharks to understand them. Generally learn about biodiversity, species interactions, the oceans and our planet. A good source for example is (www.sharkproject.org).
• Donate to organizations such as Fundacion Malpelo (www.fundacionmalpelo.org) that buy up small islands and declare them as shark sanctuaries.
• Watch and tell your friends to see Sharkwater. Find out more at sharkwater.com.
• Tell teachers and students to watch Sharkwater, then download the study guides at sharkwater.com for info and photos about shark conservation.
• Find out if your country is one of the 17 countries that have banned shark finning. If not, write your local government official asking them to ban shark finning.
• Demand that your country stop the sale/importation of shark fins.​
• Start a letter writing campaign to the Secretary General of the UN requesting international bans on shark finning and the importation of fins.
• Speak out to force fisheries to change to nylon leaders and other by-catch reducing measures.
• Don’t eat any fish. Since over ½ of the 100,000,000 sharks caught yearly are caught as by-catch, and the commercial fisheries are headed for collapse in a few short decades, we do not believe you should be eating anything from the seas.
  If you want to eat fish, then download a seafood card and carry it with you.

Source: http://lesjoyeusesboucanieres.net/tag/chinese-sharks-fins-slaughter/

​Figure: Slaughtered Sharks in a Chinese Shark Finning Place. And this is just the waste, all they use is the fins...

Source: http://www.visiondive.com/sites/protection/english/names_for_shark_products.html.​​

Figure: Other names for Shark Meat, in different languages