Sharks – Apex Predators & Ocean Guardians Over 270,000 sharks are killed every day for their fins, squalene and meat – yet they are a cornerstone species of a healthy ocean. Shark meat is highly toxic and contains heavy metals people are unknowingly consuming: arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury and methylmercury. Back Back 01 We proudly participated in a European study to analyse methylmercury in blue shark and tope shark meat, coordinated by ElasmOcean and Stop Finning Deutschland. READ THE REPORT ➡︎ 02 Sign the petition to ban import of shark products to Switzerland. PETITION Austria already has done this!