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"Mr President, I unreservedly support the Commission’s proposals on finning. I come from the island of Réunion, where sharks do not get good press because of repeated attacks on surfers. However, I am aware that a shark thrown back into the sea is a dead shark. I am aware that the barbaric practice of finning has resulted in overfishing and that the European fleets are not innocent in all of this. Finally, I am aware that 73 species of shark are endangered and that they play an essential role in the food chain. As we have heard, sharks have been swimming in the oceans for almost 400 million years – 140 million years before the dinosaurs – and they even help to generate the oxygen that we breathe. Therefore we, humans, cannot be the species that sacrifices another species for economic interests and for the pleasure of eating a soup in Asia, soup that is not even good."@en1
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