A ban on shark fins is long overdue - and common sense GlobeDebate
Special to The Globe and MailA shark struggles to free herself from the rope hauling her onto the ship. Fishermen quickly grab her and hack off her fins, each side, then the top, maybe even her tail. She is still alive when they throw her back into the ocean, where she can now no longer swim. So she sinks, deeper and deeper, dying a slow death.Outside of Eastern Asia, Canada is the greatest importer of shark fins.
The aptly-named MP, Fin Donnelly is heading the bill. “There is a crisis in oceans around the world with the rapid decline of sharks being killed for their fins,” he said in a statement. “Since 2011, five private members’ bills have been introduced that would ban the trade of shark fins; in that time, nearly one billion sharks have been butchered and killed for their fins.
In 2017, researchers at the University of Guelph tested the DNA of more than 100 samples of shark fin sold at stores and markets in Vancouver, discovering that 71 per cent belonged to species considered at risk of extinction.
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