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Bonjour a tous, et desolé pour mon long silence, mais boulot boulot et autres ...

Petit rappel sur "Le Shark Finning":
Le shark finning consiste à pêcher spécifiquement des requins en leur coupant les ailerons puis à rejeter les requins encore vivants à la mer.

Bon cette fois une petition est en cours chez HSI, pour reglementer la "peche" aux ailerons de requins dans la CEE
Cette petition sera transmise aux ministres de la peche concernés ...

http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=105&ea.campaign.id=11526&ea.tracking.id=e65db3ea

Au cas ou copier coller la ligne ci dessus dans la barre d'adresse de votre navigateur...

Pour info les premieres actions pour abolir le Shark Finning on commencé a porter leur fruits;
dernièrement Taiwan qui est un des principaux marchés de l'aileron de requin a adopté une reglementation
qui oblige les pecheurs a garder les carcasses entieres des requins a bord....
Il est desormais interdit de rejeter a la mer les requins vivants sans leurs ailerons dans les eaux Taiwanaises....
Plus d'infos:
Victory for sharks in taiwan:
http://www.hsi.org/news/press_releases/2011/07/taiwan_fins_attached_071211.html

Comme quoi les petitions sur le web peuvent etre efficaces;
-Elles rassemblent des centaines de milliers, voire des millions de signatures
-Elles sont transmises aux bonnes personnes a des postes clef....

Merci pour eux...


Ci dessous extrait de la SHARK Conservation Timeline, qui fait le point sur les mesures de protection des Requins dans le monde (Retenues et rejetées):
Vous maitrisez l'Anglais n'est il pas ?

SHARK Conservation Timeline:
http://www.hsi.org/issues/shark_finning/timelines/shark_conservation_timeline.html

Advances and disappointments in International Shark Conservation, 2005-2011:

2011: Taiwan announced that it would implement a fins-naturally-attached policy to reduce shark catches beginning in 2012.

2011: The Chilean National Congress passed legislation prohibiting shark finning, requiring that shark catches that land ashore must have
their fins naturally attached to the bodies.

2011: The Bahamas government declared its national waters a shark sanctuary, banning all commercial shark fishing.

2011: Honduras announced a permanent shark sanctuary in its national waters.

2011: The government of Costa Rica held a shark finning side event at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s Committee on
Fisheries meeting to present the video from the September 2010 workshop and hold a panel discussion on the fins-attached method of banning shark finning.

2011: The U.S. Shark Conservation Act, which strengthens the U.S. finning ban by closing loopholes in the 2000 ban, was passed.

2010: An EU Written Declaration on shark finning got the highest number of signatures out of all Written Declarations in 2010. Its adoption was followed by a
European Parliamentary Resolution urging the Commission to produce a legislative proposal supporting a ban on removal of shark fins at sea.

2010: Proposals were put forward at both the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC) and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) to strengthen shark finning bans by requiring that sharks be landed whole, but both failed to gain consensus and were not adopted.

2010: ICCAT prohibited retention of oceanic whitetip sharks, limited catches of most species of hammerhead shark to local catches by coastal communities for domestic consumption, and required that catch data be provided by any country that catches shortfin mako sharks.

2010: Costa Rica hosted a regional capacity building workshop on landing sharks with fins naturally attached to help end shark finning.

2010: The United Nations (UN) Fish Stocks Agreement urged that countries strengthen finning bans and consider requiring that sharks be landed whole, with fins attached.

2010: A record number of eight species of shark, including oceanic whitetip, porbeagle, hammerhead and spiny dogfish, were proposed for but failed to gain protection from international trade at the 15th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

2010: The Convention on Migratory Species (CMS) established a non-binding global instrument on shark conservation.

2009: At the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Committee on Fisheries (COFI) meeting, Costa Rica—with support from other Latin American countries—called for a workshop to facilitate the adoption of the “fins-attached” method for banning shark finning.

2009: ICCAT became the first international fisheries management body to adopt shark fishing regulations by banning the retention of bigeye thresher sharks; however,
a proposal to land sharks with fins attached was rejected.

2008: CMS added shortfin and longfin mako sharks, porbeagle sharks and the northern hemisphere population of spiny dogfish sharks to its Appendix II list of protected species.

2007: The UN General Assembly recommended that countries strengthen shark finning bans and consider requiring that sharks be landed with
fins attached, the most effective method of ending the cruel practice of shark finning (which also helps to reduce the amount of sharks killed by commercial fisheries).

How you can help
While we are lobbying for stronger international regulations, you can do your part as a citizen and a consumer:

* Never consume shark fin soup. Sign our No Shark Fin pledge.
* Avoid all shark meat, including fish and chips, which is often made with dogfish shark meat.
* Avoid products made with ingredients that come from sharks such as shark liver oil and shark cartilage.
* Avoid consuming fish such as tuna and swordfish, which are caught using methods that have high bycatch of sharks and other species.
* Urge your government to adopt and promote domestic and international measures to protect sharks, especially “fins-attached” shark finning bans.

Merci pour eux...

bye les humains...