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Dead in their hundreds on the dock

Their bodies rotting on the floor of a Japanese dock, these sharks have been killed for one thing: their fins.

Like the slaves who walked the rows of cotton in America”s Southern plantations 200 years ago, Japanese workers move silently between the bodies hacking off the fins and catching them in buckets….

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