A Chinese TikToker has been fined 125,000 yuan (about $18,500) for cooking and eating a great white shark in a video posted online.

What happened: The food blogger who bears his name Tiziwas fined for eating the great white shark, which is a protected species in China under the Wildlife Conservation Law.

The law prohibits anyone from transporting, buying, and selling them, and violators can face hefty fines or up to 10 years in prison.

Tizi had bought the shark at one Alibaba-own shopping page Taobao for 7,700 yuan ($1,141). Authorities pursued Tizi after she posted the video on a social media platform douyin – the Chinese version of TikTok.

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The videos, in which Tizi cooks the two-meter-long great white shark – much larger than she is in terms of size and length – in a spicy broth and eats its meat, attracted a lot of attention on the Internet. “It may look vicious, but its meat is really very tender,” Tizi said in the video, before biting into the shark’s carcass.

Tizi, identified by officials as Jin, is known for posting extreme food videos showing her eating animals like crocodiles and ostriches. She has over 7.8 million followers on Douyin.

According to World Wildlife Foundationn, or WWF, great white sharks are considered critically endangered because many people hunt them for their fins and teeth. This has significantly reduced their population.

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