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Just this past Friday, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that prohibits the sale, trade, and possession of shark fins. Hopefully, this will help the decreasing population of sharks. Said Governor Brown, “”The practice of cutting the fins off of living sharks and dumping them back in the ocean is not only cruel, but it harms the health of our oceans.” He continued,” In the interest of future generations, I have signed this bill.”
Today, the California Senate Appropriations Committee is voting on sending Assembly Bill 376 to the Senate floor. The proposed bill would ban the possession, trade, sale, and distribution of shark fins in California. Currently, the laws that ban shark finning deal with shark handling, but do not address the issue of how many sharks can be killed, so the shark finning trade is alive and well. By eliminating the shark finning market, the hope is that millions of lives would be saved and many a shark species can be removed from the threatened species list.
The practice of shark finning has caused the number of hammerhead sharks (on the endangered species list) to decrease rapidly.
Sharks are the apex predators of the sea, but often fall prey to humans for their fins. It is estimated that almost 100 million sharks are killed each year for shark fin soup, a delicacy in Asian cultures.
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