Seafood may be delicious, but people should think first before threatening endangered marine species, the WWF Hong Kong has urged.
The environmental group has released the results of a survey about local people's attitude towards the consumption of seafood.
A total of 932 people were interviewed online in July and August. About 83 per cent of the respondents admitted that they have eaten shark fin, while 68 per cent have eaten humphead wrasse.
Environmentalists have long protested against the consumption of shark fins because they believe the practice of 'finning' - where fishermen hack off the fins of a shark and throw the rest of it overboard, leaving it to die in pain - is barbaric and wasteful.
And humphead wrasse, also known as Napoleon wrasse, is listed as endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources red list.
The population is decreasing dramatically primarily due to overfishing in the Asia-Pacific region. And the fish trade is centred in Hong Kong.
Scientists estimate that if people do not refrain from overfishing, humphead wrasse may be extinct within ten years.
