Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Introduce Bill To Stop Shark Fin Trade
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced legislation on June 23 to ban the trade of shark fins in the U.S., a press release said (here). Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.V., along with Reps. Ed Royce, R-Calif.,…
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and Gregorio Sablan, D-Northern Mariana Islands, wrote the Shark Fin Trade Elimination Act of 2016 to stem the trade of more than 70 million total shark fins that enter the global market yearly, despite the illegality of shark finning in several places, including U.S. waters, the release said. "Between 2000 and 2011, the U.S. imported a yearly average of 36 tons of dried shark fins, including from countries that have few or no protections in place for sharks," it said.