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California governor signs ban on shark fin trade
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Contributor | Jason |
Last Edited | Jason Oct 08, 2011 06:18pm |
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News Date | Saturday, October 8, 2011 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
Description | California's governor announced Friday that he signed a bill banning the sale, trade and possession of shark fins to protect the world's dwindling shark population.
Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB376 over objections that the fins are used in a soup considered a delicacy in some Asian cultures.
California joined Hawaii, Washington, Oregon and Guam in the ban that environmental and animal rights activists hailed for closing off Pacific ports in the U.S. to the shark fin trade.
"The practice of cutting the fins off of living sharks and dumping them back in the ocean is not only cruel, but it harms the health of our oceans," Brown wrote in a statement. |
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