Ban the Shark Fin Trade in the United States
Please sign the petition provided in the link above to ban shark fin trading.
- Target: United States Governors and Legislators
- Sponsored by: Shark Savers
Sharks are essential to the health of our oceans. As apex predators, sharks maintain a critical balance in the ocean. When sharks are eliminated, disastrous effects can happen further down the food chain, including the collapse of commercial fisheries and degradation of coral reefs. Ecosystems with healthy shark populations have higher numbers of fish.
The shark fin trade is decimating shark populations worldwide. Shark fin soup is a luxury that is responsible for tens of millions of sharks being killed every year. While sharks are essential, this soup is not.
A third of shark species are threatened with extinction. Some populations have plummeted by over 90%. Sharks cannot easily recover from overfishing because they reproduce slowly, taking years to mature and producing few offspring.
Join Shark Savers and the growing movement to Ban The Fin!
THE FIN CROWD The University of Bristol is developing software that will automatically recognize individual dorsal fins of sharks cruising the world’s oceans. For the first time ever it will add to a central database experts hope will give them a unique insight into the species’ population and one day give them the truth on numbers of the animals and their movements. Spectacular pictures show how Swiss marine biologist Michael Scholl, Founder and Director of the White Shark Trust, spent 10 years photographing over 1,500 great whites using his ‘finprinting’ technique. (Photo: Michael Scholl / Barcroft Media via the Telegraph)
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