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"en.20121122.31.4-259-750"2
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"I voted for this report because I want it to be impossible to engage in the practice of cutting off sharks’ fins and throwing their bodies back into the sea. The live animal is then condemned to sink to the bottom and die. This practice is problematic environmentally (it threatens the survival of certain species), economically (it causes enormous waste of a potential food source) and morally (it causes unnecessary suffering to animals). There is no economic need for ‘finning’, as there is a market for shark bodies, which are nevertheless thrown back into the sea for lack of space. Yet the current regulations are not working correctly: many infractions have been reported. I think it is important to close the loophole in the European legislation from 2003, which allows some fishermen to continue to use this technique. This practice is difficult to detect, as the sharks’ bodies and fins may be landed separately, at different ports. It is therefore necessary to ensure that sharks are landed whole. We must make the legislation clearer and stricter, so that this practice is no longer possible."@en1
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