Sentences with phrase «shark finning legislation»

In 2006, the European Parliament adopted a resolution calling on the European Commission to strengthen the EU shark finning legislation and progress is being made.

2012: On 19 March, the Council of the European Union adopted a general approach supporting the Commission's proposal to close the loopholes in the current EU shark finning legislation by ensuring that all sharks are landed with their fins naturally attached without exception.

Not exact matches

One very pleasant surprise is that state officials, who are instrumental in passing important legislation (our panel included discussions of shark finning bans, puppy mill legislation, outlawing pigeon shoots, protections for companion animals, and the intensive confinement of pigs), were extremely happy about being invited to animal events.

Your generous gift will allow us to fight to protect all the important gains we've made over the years as well as continue our work to advocate for legislation taking on domestic violence against pets, horse slaughter and horse soring, animal testing for cosmetics, shark finning, the dangerous exotic pet trade and dog meat trade, and other cruelties.

Although the Committee voted in favour of the Commission's proposal to delete the derogations from the legislation to ensure that all sharks are landed with their fins naturally attached, the report contains serious discrepancies that need to be rectified at the Plenary vote.

We will continue to work to reduce the demand for shark fins and encourage the introduction legislation to stop the practice of shark finning in other countries around the world.

However, the industry soon identified loopholes in the legislation that enabled them to continue shark finning.

A number of countries have shark - finning legislation.

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This method is aimed at circumventing legislation banning finning which states that the fins of the shark must be «naturally attached» to the body.

Legislation Hits World's Largest Market for Fins At Least 1.3 Million Sharks Were Killed by Industrial Fishing in 2008

President Obama signed federal legislation tightening a ban on shark finning in U.S. waters earlier this year.

We've talked about the pending legislation that would ban shark fins in California several times here on TreeHugger.

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.

Once enacted, this legislation would ban the possession, sale, trade and distribution of shark fins in New York.