Now if we can only give the death penalty to long line fishermen.

An anti-Shark Finning bill was approved by a voice vote by the U.S. House Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday.

“There’s a hell of a lot of two-legged sharks around that are a lot more dangerous than the ones with fins in the ocean,” said Neil Abercrombie , D-Hawaii.

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Shark finning has technically been illegal in the United States since the Shark Finning Prohibition Act of 2000. The new bill closes a loophole that allowed for the transfer of Shark fins at sea from vessel to vessel without the corresponding Shark carcasses. This bullshit is now illegal. This will make it much harder for large scale Shark finning operations to get their bloody cargo back to Asia for Shark fin soup. The panel also adopted by voice vote an amendment by Eni F.H. Faleomavaega , D-Am. Samoa, to require all fishermen to land their sharks with the fins still attached. This is a minor victory for Sharks. Huzzah.

Try to make soup out of this.

Stamp out culinary barbarism,

--Sharky

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