We urge the government to adopt a 'fins naturally attached' policy.” Shark fishermen in India traditionally make use of all the parts of a shark, including meat, skin, teeth and fins.

Sharks are under threat for several reasons. The demand for their fins to supply the mainly Asian market (see box) is a very lucrative business: Between 2012 and 2019, it generated $1.5 billion.

NGOs urge MSC to launch a shark fins ‘naturally attached’ policy Seaspiracy has increased consumer concerns around the issue of shark bycatch and finning, Iris Ziegler from Sharkproject ...

This legislation made it unlawful to possess a shark fin in US waters without a corresponding carcass. Unfortunately, the ban did not require that carcasses be brought ashore with fins attached, ...

Shark spining is a fairly recent phenomenon, and is the act of stripping off all the meat and skin of a shark while leaving its fins attached by a strip of skin to its spinal cord, to get around laws ...

So if the shark is ethically landed, and it’s dead, and the shark fins are then removed and then made into soup, then that’s fine. “Only sharks landed with their fins naturally attached will ...

LUCKNOW: The ministry of environment and forests has issued a 'fins naturally attached' policy requiring fisheries to land sharks in coastal states with their fins intact. The policy is a strong ...

After the Legislative Assembly approved the Fishing Law last year, a group of 20 legislators approved INCOPESCA’s interpretation of attached as including artificially attached fins. The Government ...

N ew laws will give more bite to the fight against the “indescribably cruel” shark fin trade, the government has said. Importing and exporting detached shark fins is set to be banned as part ...

It is also illegal to possess removed fins on board a fishing vessel, and it is illegal to take sharks back to shore "without such fins naturally attached." The sharks have been sent to a lab to ...

For the fourth time in the past 12 months, the Government Attorney’s Office has declared that sharks must be unloaded at the country’s docks with their fins naturally attached to their bodies. The ...