EU Shark Ban Ineffective
May 18, 2007 @ 09:26 AM (EST)
Source: Reuters
The European Union's shark finning regulations are hopelessly inadequate, allowing vast numbers of sharks to be killed, finned and dumped at sea in secret, a report by a conservation group said on Thursday.
The Shark Alliance, a coalition of 30 non-government organisations dedicated to protecting sharks, said the lax EU regulations were wiping out shark populations and had to be completely overhauled as soon as possible.
The bloc brought in a ban on simple finning -- cutting the high value fins off the shark and dumping the low value carcass at sea -- in 2003...
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