Shark Publicist in Action
San Francisco, California – February 14, 2011
From the NRDC* Switchboard: Breath-Hold Diver Goes Nose-to-Nose with Sharks to Help Stop Shark Finning by Leila Monroe.
“Today, following the lead of Hawaii, which banned the possession, sale, trade, and distribution of shark fins, California’s Assemblymembers Fong and Huffman announced Assembly Bill 376 that will do the same in the Golden State. Shark fin soup is served at a surprising number of restaurants in California. The state’s action to ban finning will send a strong signal to other places where shark fins are consumed”.
Here is an extract from AB 376 :
“Every year fins from tens of millions of sharks are used for shark fin soup. The human appetite for shark fins has been a major contributor to the nearcollapse of shark populations worldwide, including in California. Current federal and California laws banning shark finning control shark handling practices but do not restrict the number of sharks killed and thus do not address the issue of the shark fin trade”. – Read the complete Bill here.
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* The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a New York City-based, non-profit, non-partisan international environmental advocacy group, with offices in Washington DC, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Beijing. Founded in 1970, NRDC today has 1.3 million members and online activists nationwide and a staff of more than 300 scientists, attorneys and other specialists.