Most go to make shark fin soup, a luxury dish and status symbol ... Photos and videos usually show grim images of fishermen hauling sharks up the sides of boats, slicing off the animals' fins ...

Note: The basking shark and great white shark shown here are represented at a scale of 25.5 feet and 13.5 feet, respectively; Infographic: Maura Losch/Axios Not every fin moving slowly in dark ...

The shark tore the fin off his right foot and swam away, as video footage he captured of the encounter shows. ViralHog posted his video Sunday, though it occurred in January. “Luckily ...