While traveling through the Jakarta Airport I saw this retail store right within the airport.

I walked through it and noticed most the of the products were dried marine animals.

But what I did notice were the numerous displays of really large shark fins dried and wrapped in clear thin plastic. Most of these dried fins were HUGE and had to come from really large sharks.

I wanted to ask viewers what they think of this:

Jakarta airport sharkfin sml.jpg

Do people have the moral right to be outraged by this? Are Westerners imposing our set of moral values on a different culture that doesn't see things the same way? Is this just wrong on every conceivable level? Do poor fisherman have the right to harvest these sharks because it is the only way they can feed their hungry families and without such income they would go hungry?

Your respectful opinions are welcome in this discussion.