EU citizens, help sharks by writing in to the European Commission!

by drew Saturday, December 11th, 2010

Article Summary:

The European Commission’s Fisheries dept is now seeking a public consultation whether to completely ban shark finning in the EU. Regulations now basically banned finning, but a loophole allowed by the EC by issuing special permits to allow fishermen to remove fins. There is now a movement within the IUCN which is calling for the EC to stop all permits and close off the loophole entirely. The EC Fisheries has started an online consultation for EU citizens to gauge the popularity of banning finning entirely. So to all the EU citizens who remotely care about sharks, get your family, friends (facebook, myspace, twitter etc etc) out there to write in to support this move!!!

I understand the need for that but form letters tend to get ignored. It is always much better to write a personal plea and reasons for supporting the ban. Plus this is the EU Commission, so they take all languages in the EU. I only linked the English site because that is the one I read. Thanks for all who support this vital movement!
Posted by drew on 2010-12-13 01:19:56 Maybe it's a good idea if some native english speaking member cab write a standard letter that you can copy/past in the email you can submit, in order to speak out your worries about sharks of the world.
Posted by Udo van Dongen on 2010-12-12 09:02:42