Sentences with phrase «shark fin traded»

A new analysis of worldwide customs and trade data published in the journal Biological Conservation confirms that shark - fin trade has dropped by approximately 25 percent over the last decade «Although we can't say that we fully understand the scale or the cause of the shark fin trade decline in China, it seems safe to conclude that demand for fins is waning, and that sounds like good news for sharks,» says global shark fin trade expert Shelley Clarke, a co-author on this study.

«Given that sharks are in decline on reefs worldwide, largely due to the shark fin trade, this information may prove integral to restoration and conservation efforts.»

Madison Stewart, Fusion's resident Shark Girl, visits Indonesia to explore the heart of the shark fin trade.

Although shark fins aren't widely consumed in the country, a growing demand from China has encouraged Indonesian fishermen to catch more and more sharks, making Indonesia one of the largest players in the global shark fin trade.

And once they learn that a growing number of shark species are threatened with extinction, and that tens of millions are killed annually for the shark fin trade, many will feel compelled to both learn more and take action.

New Yorkers concerned about animal welfare converged on the state capitol for Humane Lobby Day to meet with lawmakers and lobby for better animal protection laws designed to strengthen anti-cruelty statues, eliminate the extreme confinement of animals on factory farms and protect sharks from the cruel and unsustainable shark fin trade.

There is no place for the shark fin trade in the U.S.... or anywhere.

Seventeen municipalities in Canada and numerous U.S. states have banned shark fin trading, but it continues to be a huge problem.

Talk and film by David McGuire on a trans Pacific sailing voyage filming, diving with sharks and exposing the shark fin trade.

The shark fin trade has boomed in the past half century and has significantly depleted shark species.

In fact, shark fin trading has dropped by as much as 82 percent in some parts of the country and continues to decline.

In fact, many of the 12 Pacific Rim countries negotiating the secretive trade pact — Malaysia, Vietnam, and Singapore, to name a few — have a long and bloody history in the shark fin trade.

As word has spread of the moral and environmental horrors associated with the shark fin trade, governments throughout the world have begun enacting bans on the sale and possession of that cruel commodity — and now the world's largest cargo airline is getting in on the act.

What's really the unnecessary toll on Costa Rica's reputation here, the very curiously timed and executed arrest of Paul Watson or the continued illegal shark fin trade (which only exists because of government corruption at some level) that Watson and Sea Shepherd put themselves in harms way to prevent?

By combining that data with records from shark fin trading houses, the researchers determined that the volume of shark fins represented in the trade is three to four times higher than reported catches.»

In Hong Kong, McGuire estimates the shark fin trade has been cut in half.

Some US states have already implemented bans on the shark fin trade, including Oregon, Hawaii, Washington and California.

But the city is the main hub for the world's shark fin trade.

Suffice to say, shark fin is culturally embedded in Chinese cuisine, medicine and folklore - an institution of sorts that needs to be understood and addressed by activists worldwide, if the campaign to stop the shark fin trade is going to be realistically effective.

Today's announcement protects the Maldives» tourism industry from the the ravages of the shark fin trade.

It follows Hawaii and Washington to hammer down on the shark fin trade, and helps with the federal government's legislation on shark finning in US waters.

The Pew Environment Group has released revealing photos of the huge and brutal shark fin trade in Taiwan.

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In a move to end the shark fin trade within California, the state assembly passed AB376, on a 62 - 8 vote Monday afternoon, as TreeHugger Stephen Messenger reported.

While shark finning is illegal in the U.S., current federal laws banning the practice do not address the issue of the shark fin trade, so shark fins are imported to the U.S. from countries with few or even no shark protections in place,» notes Oceana.

Shark finning is an irresponsible practice driven by the shark fin trade which kills millions of sharks every year.

See photos of Taiwan's shark finning trade»

It has no nutritional value and is the main driver of the multi-billion dollar international shark fin trade.

Pretoma, a small conservation group with a budget of $ 300,000 annually, has worked tirelessly in the past decade to draw attention to the highly lucrative global shark fin trade.

Marie Levine, executive director of the Shark Research Institute, said: «Much of the shark fin trade uses fins hacked off living sharks.

Elizabeth Hogan, campaign manager for World Society for the Protection of Animals, said: «Shark finning is an extremely cruel and inhumane practice driven by the shark fin trade in which fishermen catch sharks, cut off their fins and throw the still - living animals back into the water, where they die slow and horrifically painful deaths.

Ending the shark fin trade is a very important step in reversing the damage we have done through this unnecessary and wasteful practice.»

Our success will hopefully lead to additional nationwide actions to stop the inhumane and ecologically devastating shark fin trade.»

Not exact matches

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The authors argue that sharks need stronger protections, such as the kind of international agreement that has protected whales, or restrictions to the trade of their fins and meat.

An analysis of trade statistics suggests that efforts to educate shark fin soup consumers is working

They are sold to the restaurant trade and exported to Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and China, where they are consumed as shark fin soup at important events.

«While a range of factors may have contributed to a decline in traded and consumed shark fins, the same factors do not appear to have constrained the trade with sea cucumbers,» Eriksson says.

This study compared the global trade in shark fins to trade in sea cucumbers, and found that the news isn't universally good for conspicuous consumption products based on threatened sea life..

There is a worldwide movement to end the consumption of shark fin soup, and Texas has just banned commercial trade of shark fins.

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Two environmental groups have put out a fresh call to the United States to strengthen the Shark Finning Prohibition Act, a 2000 law aimed at blunting the illegal trade in shark fins that biologists say has devastated shark populations worldwide in the last decade oShark Finning Prohibition Act, a 2000 law aimed at blunting the illegal trade in shark fins that biologists say has devastated shark populations worldwide in the last decade oshark fins that biologists say has devastated shark populations worldwide in the last decade oshark populations worldwide in the last decade or so.

The report comes a week after the limited release of «Sharkwater», a documentary blogged on here that provides a vivid look at the exploding trade in shark fins.

But most people who kill sharks do so for the cash generated by the booming trade in dried fins sent to China for use in $ 300 - a-bowl shark - fin soup.

The federal government has the power to pass regulations that could end the trade of shark fin products immediately, but it needs to know that Canadians still care about this issue.

It came amid a growing effort by many countries to limit the trade in endangered shark species and their fins.

She cited evidence that this conservation campaign, along with steps by the government, including a pending ban on shark fin soup at state banquets, have already sharply cut the fin trade.

I think at some point we will reach a tipping point where shark's fin soup will fall out of favor, and the trade will decline.

If the Chinese government cracks down on this illicit trade and speculation and, at the same time, supports efforts to educate consumers the way it did with shark fin soup, it's conceivable that the vaquita could, by the narrowest conceivable margin, avoid extinction.

The dozen most common shark species in the fin trade all face extinction.