0 the practice of cutting off sharks' fins (= the thin vertical parts sticking out from their bodies), and throwing their bodies back in the sea:
Human activities such as shark finning are destroying these natural wonders.
Efforts to protect sharks have been driven in part by revulsion over finning.
He learned about finning when he joined the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
Congress banned shark finning, the practice of discarding a shark's carcass at sea after slicing off its fins, to be sold and used in an expensive delicacy known as shark-fin soup.
