EU förbjuder "shark finning"
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SHARK TRUST NEWS RELEASE
For immediate release Monday 5 August 2002
EU BANS SHARK FINNING
The Shark Trust was delighted to read today's announcement by the European Fisheries Commissioner of a new legislation to ban all shark finning in EU waters and by EU registered vessels worldwide. The Trust welcomes this response to their long-running campaign for a finning ban and the Commission's recognition of the fact that this unsustainable practice (the removal of fins from sharks and the discard of the remainder of the body back into the sea) poses a significant threat to the future of shark populations and fisheries. The Trust also welcomes the inclusion of all elasmobranchs – sharks, skates and rays in the proposed legislation.
Finning, the result of demand for shark fins for soup, causes the death of tens of millions of sharks. The result in many areas has been a downward spiral of reduced shark populations, increasing shark fin prices and increased effective fishing effort. This wasteful and often cruel practice negates potential shark fishery management and conservation.
This proposed legislation represents strong progress for elasmobranch conservation, however, it falls short of the measures urged by the Shark Trust during its campaign. The Trust is concerned because the proposal does not require sharks to be landed whole, but would enable removal and separate landing of fins and bodies, through a permit-controlled ‘whole shark' fishery that aims to promote more efficient use of all shark parts by tracking catches in logbooks. This will make reporting and monitoring at landing sites difficult and may encourage illegal finning and landing of fins without the corresponding bodies. In addition, it is extremely hard to identify individual species from their fins alone, or from the bodies landed without fins, and this will impede the collection of species-specific scientific data essential for monitoring catches and landings and implementing sustainable shark fisheries management.
Sarah Fowler, Shark Trust trustee and co-chair of the IUCN Shark Specialist Group said "The Shark Trust is delighted that Europe is planning to follow the example of the handful of countries that have already implemented finning bans. However, whilst this initiative is very welcome, the proposal as it stands falls short of the recommendations made by the Trust, and the legislation will need to be very robust in order to be enforceable and cost effective."
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 EU förbjuder "shark finning"
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