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Activists Call for Shark Hunting Ban in Sabah, Malaysia
By Ian Bongso-Seldrup, April 24, 2017 @ 01:00 AM (EST)
Source: The Star (Malaysia)

A fisherman lays out shark fins at Sabah’s Semporna jetty
 

Activists in Sabah, Malaysia are calling for a ban on the hunting and finning of sharks after another image emerged of fishermen and their catch. The recent picture (above), posted by the Danau Girang Field Centre, shows row upon row of shark fins laid out to dry on a jetty in the Sabah’s east coast of Semporna. Hunting sharks in the state is still legal.

“Some sharks can be hunted, but there should be a ban on hunting certain species like the hammerhead and the stingray,” said anti-shark hunting and finning activist Aderick Chong, who heads the Sabah Shark Protection Association. “(But then) if the state government only bans the capture and killing of certain types of sharks, it will be difficult to identify which species the fins belong to.”

According to Chong, the fishermen claim the sharks they sell at the markets are by-catch. “(But) why do they need to fin the fish and sell the body separately?” he said. “This clearly shows that the shark fin trade is real and continues to exist in Sabah.”

This isn’t the first time that the treatment of sharks in Sabah has been in the news. In July last year, viral images appeared of sharks being finned and slaughtered in Mabul, one of the world’s premier muck-diving sites.

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