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"en.20121122.31.4-262-875"2
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"The practice of finning, which involves removing the fins from pelagic sharks, with the remaining parts of the animal’s body being thrown into the sea, where it endures a slow death on the sea floor, is causing growing mortality in shark stocks. These practices should be prohibited as a matter of principle and the closure of the legal loophole is long overdue. The time has come to introduce legislation requiring that all sharks landed by EU flagged vessels operating in EU and non-EU waters and by non-EU vessels in maritime waters under the sovereignty or jurisdiction of Member States be landed with their fins naturally attached. I therefore especially welcome the abolition of the exemptions under the previous EU regulation, which allowed fishermen who held special permits to remove the fins from sharks on board and land the separated fins in port. There is a massive demand for shark fin because such high prices for shark fin soup can be commanded in the Asian market. This economic incentive, sadly, is causing the killing of sharks for their fins alone. Perhaps the vote of the European Parliament will help to curb this barbaric killing of sharks."@en1
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