Calling all US residents: We need your help to stop shark finning and say no to shark fin soup. Use your voice to help push the Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act through to Congress. Shark Finning is illegal in the US but the trade in shark fins is still allowed. Let’s all come together and say no to this. Let the US be a leader in the shark finning battle.
Show your support to stop the shark fin trade. You can make a difference.
Dear Delegate Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan, I support bill H.R.2811 that prohibits the sale of shark fins, and for other purposes. This bill will prohibit the commercial trade of shark fins and products containing shark fins.
Shark fins possessed, transported, offered for sale, sold, or purchased anywhere in the United States are part of a large international market, having a substantial and direct effect on interstate commerce.
Shark finning is the cruel practice in which the fins of a shark are cut off on board a fishing vessel at sea. The remainder of the animal is then thrown back into the water to drown, starve, or die a slow death. Once a shark fin is detached from the body, it becomes impossible to determine whether the shark was legally caught or the fin lawfully removed. Sharks are critically important species for their economic, cultural, and ecosystem value. Many shark populations are in peril worldwide and are on the decline.
One of the greatest threats to sharks is the global trade in shark fins. It is estimated that fins from as many as 73,000,000 sharks end up in the global shark fin trade every year.
Thank you both so much for reintroducing this most important bill.
Signed (all of us.)