But this did not become widely known until a few years ago, when an Australian journalist flying over the sea to film a report of a fire on a fishing boat by chance discovered a Japanese fishing boat within Australia's 200-mile fishing limit cutting the fins from live sharks.
但直到前幾年，一位澳洲記者乘飛機出海拍攝漁船失火新聞，卻意外發現在澳洲經濟海域內的日本漁船，活割鯊魚鰭，此情才被公諸於世，日本漁船也因此惡名昭彰。