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You could legalize eating tiger. This will prevent tiger extinction in the same way it prevented cow extinction, result in sending some guys with rifles into the jungle that you don't even pay for, and if that's not enough, you can still send guys with rifles to finish off the wild population, and they still will be less likely to go extinct than if you do nothing.
Sharks are legal to eat and this is a major factor in their current risk of extinction.
Isn't extinction risk the goal here? (Not extinction per se, but population reduction down to the level it is no longer a threat. At least in this hypothetical.)
Sharks are not similar to tigers in that you can't (with current technology?) keep some types of them alive in captivity, but tigers you can. Legalizing eating tiger meat, though, without also legalizing tiger ranches (?) would not be of help in preventing extinction.
Sharks are hard to farm, in that they have all the problems tigers have, but you also have to do it underwater. I also think sharks aren't as in demand as tigers. I've heard tiger meat is a popular snake oil. Or at least stuff that claims to contain tiger meat is.
In Australia, fish'n'chips is almost certainly shark.