Esther de Lange MEP
Posted on September 19, 2012
Esther de Lange MEP EPP joined Dutch angelrs and NGO’s on a
shark tagging trip calling for support for the conservation of sharks.
In November 2012, the European Parliament voted to amend the EU regulation that bans shark “finning” (slicing off a shark’s fins and discarding the body at sea) so that now all sharks must be landed with their fins naturally attached. This fins-attached method is the simplest, most reliable and cost-effective means of implementing a finning ban. An increasing number of countries, scientists and politicians – as well as thousands of people around Europe – agreed. Browse the support we received below.
non à l’extermination des requin. Interdiction de sur- pêche des requins ainsi que de la pêche par les Usines flottantes. Oui à l’arrêt de la pêche pour une période permettant de repeupler les océans dévastés.