The Guam Senate will vote on Thursday to pass Bill No. 44-31 to ban the possession, sale, and distribution of shark and shark parts. Since the bill was introduced late last month, over 14,500 people around the world have signed a petition and 330 supporters from 57 different countries have written unique letters. Additionally, local Guam students have submitted thousands of signatures and hundreds of letters as part of their Shark Tsunami campaign.
Great! Next petition: “Ban The Sale of Shark Fins In California”. We are really glad to see that a global transformation begins. Hopefully, it’s not too late. Please sign, support and share this petition to your friends. Every sign helps the sharks of California. Please help, thank you!
There is another petition started to ban shark finning & fishing in Thailand – Thailand is now ranked 10th as a country that catches and fins sharks!
This petition implores Thailand to stop the fishing of sharks at our local dive sites and the banning of finning in there local waters and around the dive sites.
Please support and share this petition to your friends.
This commercial is now playing on Chinese TV. It is almost unbelievable to see it play.
This is what we are fighting for. To sensibility all people that they know shark is toxic if you eat and we have to STOP the killing of over 150 Millions of Sharks a year.
The number of manta rays that exist worldwide is unknown. They used to be hunted commercially for their liver oil and skin. The hunters would kill them by harpooning them from small boats in eastern Australia and the Sea of Cortez (Gulf of California). Today, they continue to be hunted in Mexico, Indonesia, and the Philippines, where their meat is considered a delicacy. Heavy fishing in Mexico has caused manta populations to collapse. Additionally, fishing efforts in the Philippines have been growing in the past decade enabling local markets to expand to national and international market places. There is an increasing concern about the sustainability of such a fishery. Hunters who are economically dependent on the fishery refute any conservation measures to limit the fishery.
Kirk Lee, founder of Facebook page ‘Save Our Sharks from a Bowl of Soup’, is on a mission to raise awareness on the issue. First step, taking sharks fin soup off the wedding banquet menu.
Please support and share the petition to ban shark finning in Chile.
The Chilean Government has taken a step forward in marine conservation by presenting a law project to protect sharks by banning finning. The initiative has the support of parliamentarians and is driven by an international NGO, aims to end the growing practice of finning or “aleteo” in Chile. Shark finning worldwide has made a 90% decline in shark populations and that some 100 million individuals are caught and killed each year. In Chile there is sufficient information showing that 1 in 3 blue sharks caught, suffer from this type of mutilation; this means that about 150,000 sharks are finned each year in Chilean waters.
Chile is one of the few countries where illegal shark finning is NOT oe even promoted the practice
Februar 22nd, 2011 
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The Guam Senate will vote on Thursday to pass Bill No. 44-31 to ban the possession, sale, and distribution of shark and shark parts. Since the bill was introduced late last month, over 14,500 people around the world have signed a petition and 330 supporters from 57 different countries have written unique letters. Additionally, local Guam students have submitted thousands of signatures and hundreds of letters as part of their Shark Tsunami campaign.
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