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Shark finning is illeagal in the US. This does not stop other countries from shark finning or selling product to the US. Maybe this will be the first of many bills in the right direction........
Other Shark finning news:
SAN FRANCISCO, California (18 Mar 2008) — A Hong Kong shipping company should not have been forced to give up the proceeds from 32 tons of shark fins seized by the U.S. Coast Guard on the open seas in 2002, a federal appeals court ruled yesterday.
The decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco undercuts what was billed at the time as the biggest case against the practice of shark finning, which is banned under U.S. law.
It also means the government would have to return $618,956 – the market value of the 64,695 pounds of fins seized aboard the vessel King Diamond II in August 2002. The boat was taken to San Diego.
Shark fins are a highly sought commodity in many Asian cuisines. The fins provide a gelatinous texture to shark fin soup that can sell for $100 a bowl in some countries.
Animal activists and other critics abhor the practice of shark finning, calling it barbaric. Live sharks are caught and have their fins cut off and then are dumped into the ocean, where they sink and die.
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