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When will sharks catch a break?
Not anytime soon, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals |
Andrew Sharpless |
20 Mar 2008 |
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| The brutal practice of shark finning got a boost this week as the U.S. Court of Appeals ruled that a Hong Kong company should not have lost the proceeds from 64,695 pounds of shark fins seized by the Coast Guard in 2002. Let me repeat that figure: 64,695 pounds of shark fins alone were on that boat. That's the weight of more than eleven Cadillac Escalades. Or eight female African elephants. Or 470 Oxford dictionaries. Without knowing what species of sharks wer ... |
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| Topics: animal welfare, fishing, Hong Kong, oceans (all these topics) |
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