"While shark fin soup will be a staple at Chinese New Year banquets in Australia this week, it is under attack from conservation groups. And there are growing international efforts to ban the delicacy from the table for good. Hong Kong-based Peninsula and Shangri-La hotel groups have taken shark fin soup off their menus and Singapore's largest supermarket chain, NTUC FairPrice, will cease sales of shark fin products in March." (Quoted from article)