This petition was submitted during the 2017-2019 parliament
Rejected petition Ban the import, fishing, purchase and sale of Shark/Shark Fins in the UK.
According to many conservative estimates from multiple sources, 100,000,000 sharks are slaughtered for their fins every year. That’s roughly 274,000 sharks a day.
That's nearly double the population of the UK - Dying every year.
We need regulations now, to protect these species imperil.
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Fishermen will hack the fins off living sharks and simply throw the rest of their bodies overboard, allowing them to bleed to death.
Sinking fin-less, slowly to the bottom of the sea.
Shark finning is a wasteful, barbaric practice, but it also has a devastating impact on our oceans.
The use of these atrocious practices in the name of archaic traditions and cultures, must stop. How are we to grow as a species if we continue to act like our poorly educated predecessors.
We have no excuse.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/237050
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