CITES protects sharks & rays

[Dot Com]

great news!!!

Sharks and Manta Rays Receive Protection Under CITES

March14, 2013

This week is marked by a historic conservation milestone for sharks and rays globally. At this year’s Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) Conference of the Parties meeting in Bangkok, countries agreed to increase protection for five commercially-exploited species of sharks and manta rays. CITES member nations, referred to as “Parties”, voted in support of listing the oceanic whitetip shark, three species of hammerhead sharks (scalloped, smooth, and great), the porbeagle shark and manta rays in CITES Appendix II – an action that means increased protection, but still allows legal and sustainable trade.

 

[Mr Natural]

 

[waltky]

Savin' the sharks...

US state wildlife investigators make large shark fin bust
Sun, Feb 16, 2014 - Almost a tonne of illegal shark fins were seized from a vendor in San Francisco, state wildlife officials said on Friday.

Michael Kwong, 42, of Kwong Yip Inc was cited for having 970kg of the fins, which violates California’s ban that went into effect in July last year, Lieutenant Patrick Foy of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said. Possessing shark fins, selling or trading them is a misdemeanor under California’s law, so Foy said it will be up to a judge to determine any penalty.

Investigators were led to Kwong during an investigation of an Emeryville restaurant cited for selling shark fin soup on Jan. 27. “We consider this an extremely egregious violation of the law,” Foy said. A message left for Kwong at his business was not returned. Kwong has been an outspoken opponent of the state’s ban, and he was a member of a Chinese-American group that sued to challenge its constitutionality, Foy said.

Conservation groups have estimated that 73 million sharks are killed each year globally for their fins, which are often cut from live animals. Opponents of shark finning praised the state’s bust. “California’s shark fin ban is critical to ending the cruel practice of shark finning, and to protecting sharks and ocean ecosystems for future generations,” Jennifer Fearing of the Humane Society of the US said in a statement. Kwong insisted that the fins be kept refrigerated during the investigation, in the hopes that he would get them back, Foy said.

US state wildlife investigators make large shark fin bust - Taipei Times

 

[Old Rocks]

When we have reached to point that we have to have agreements even to protect sharks and rays, you realize have vast our impact on our environment has become.

 

[Dot Com]

Asians eat that stuff up and also think it makes their peckers magical. Watch SouthPark

The Dolphin Encounter - Video Clips - South Park Studios

seriously though, the Asians (Chinese and Japanese), among others, are the ones creating the demand. The Japanese because they basically eat a primary fish diet & the Chinese for their zany beliefs in magical properties

 

[Abraham3]

I don't think any of the species listed currently have a sustainable trade level. I think they are all at or beyond the point at which their numbers are so low they don't run into each other often enough to maintain a positive reproductive rate. They are, for all practical purposes, already doomed. Mantas might have a chance, but porbeagles and hammerheads, particularly the scalloped, have become exceedingly rare.

 

[Dot Com]

once we deplete the oceans/over fish, we're doomed.

 

[flacaltenn]

Savin' the sharks...

US state wildlife investigators make large shark fin bust
Sun, Feb 16, 2014 - Almost a tonne of illegal shark fins were seized from a vendor in San Francisco, state wildlife officials said on Friday.

Michael Kwong, 42, of Kwong Yip Inc was cited for having 970kg of the fins, which violates California’s ban that went into effect in July last year, Lieutenant Patrick Foy of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said. Possessing shark fins, selling or trading them is a misdemeanor under California’s law, so Foy said it will be up to a judge to determine any penalty.

Investigators were led to Kwong during an investigation of an Emeryville restaurant cited for selling shark fin soup on Jan. 27. “We consider this an extremely egregious violation of the law,” Foy said. A message left for Kwong at his business was not returned. Kwong has been an outspoken opponent of the state’s ban, and he was a member of a Chinese-American group that sued to challenge its constitutionality, Foy said.

Conservation groups have estimated that 73 million sharks are killed each year globally for their fins, which are often cut from live animals. Opponents of shark finning praised the state’s bust. “California’s shark fin ban is critical to ending the cruel practice of shark finning, and to protecting sharks and ocean ecosystems for future generations,” Jennifer Fearing of the Humane Society of the US said in a statement. Kwong insisted that the fins be kept refrigerated during the investigation, in the hopes that he would get them back, Foy said.

US state wildlife investigators make large shark fin bust - Taipei Times

Perfect.. Throw him in the fridge with the fins so he can watch them better from there.