{"id":377,"date":"2011-12-08T11:11:50","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T11:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/?p=377"},"modified":"2012-07-01T14:03:12","modified_gmt":"2012-07-01T14:03:12","slug":"bill-c-380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/2011\/12\/bill-c-380\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill C-380"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-381\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-381\" title=\"Great White Shark\" src=\"http:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/greatwhitesharkcruising.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/greatwhitesharkcruising.jpg 400w, https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/greatwhitesharkcruising-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/greatwhitesharkcruising-100x150.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Great White Shark making eye contact with William Winram | photo on a breath-hold and without a cage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span class=\"titulo\">Support the Ban on Shark Fin Importation Act!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Canada&#8217;s House of Commons &#8211; December 8, 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please check out the link at the bottom of this page and lend your support to the important legislation introduced by Mr. Fin Donnelly.<\/p>\n<p>On December 8, 2011, Member of Parliament Fin Donnelly, NDP Fisheries and Oceans critic, announced the introduction of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.parl.gc.ca\/HousePublications\/Publication.aspx?Docid=5315169&amp;file=4\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ffc125;\"><strong>Bill C-380<\/strong><\/span><\/a> &#8211; &#8220;The bill would amend the Fish Inspection Act to prohibit the importation of shark fins into Canada, and would make into law a prohibition on shark finning in Canadian waters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Donnely further added &#8220;Sharks are top predators and play a key role in maintaining ocean health. Their populations are plummeting around the world. Scientists report that up to 73 million sharks are killed annually for their fins, often by finning, a horrific practice in which the fins are severed from the shark and the shark&#8217;s body is discarded at sea.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, the International Union for Conservation of Nature reported that over one-third of all shark species are threatened with extinction as a result of shark finning. The best way to curb illegal finning is to stop the international trade in shark fins.<\/p>\n<p>Canada can become a world leader in shark conservation and ocean stewardship by adopting legislation to protect sharks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hear, hear !<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.FinDonnelly.ca\/sharkfin\">http:\/\/www.FinDonnelly.ca\/sharkfin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Support the Ban on Shark Fin Importation Act!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breath-hold-diving","category-ocean-conservation","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/williamwinram.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}