[Sustain] Fwd: Strong Support For Shark Fin Products Ban (AB 376)

[Eric Brooks]

Hi all,

Since Mayor Ed Lee just announced his opposition to the Shark Fin 
product ban, I finally sent sent the letter below and attached to 
Senator Yee and his chief of staff.

Eric B

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Subject: 	From SF Green Party: Strong Support For Shark Fin Products Ban 
(AB 376)
Date: 	Tue, 26 Apr 2011 21:08:02 -0700
From: 	Eric Brooks <brookse at igc.org>
To: 	Leland Yee <senator.yee at senate.ca.gov>




	
	
	

	
	

	


Senator Leland Yee, Ph.D.
State Capitol, Room 4074
Sacramento, CA 95814

Dear Senator Yee,

The San Francisco Green Party strongly supports AB 376 (Fong, Huffman).

Shark finning for delicacies like shark fin soup, is a tragic, inhumane, 
wasteful, and environmentally destructive fishing practice, which must 
be completely halted as quickly as possible. As top predators, sharks 
form an absolutely crucial role in the survival of all life in our 
global ocean ecosystems. Because sharks are now experiencing 
ecologically dangerous and species threatening worldwide collapses in 
many populations, a zero tolerance approach must be taken to prevent 
them from being finned.

The San Francisco Green Party believes that your recent proposal to 
address shark finning by putting tighter restrictions on fishers and 
fisheries, is an approach which has proven to have failed in the past, 
and will not succeed now. Because the policing of such fishing 
restrictions would be far too difficult to maintain, only a ban on 
consumer purchases, and possession, of shark fin products themselves 
will solve the problem.

We urgently request that you to take a much stronger position of full 
unequivocal support for AB 376, and for the complete banning of all 
consumer purchases and possession of shark fin products.

Sincerely,

Eric Brooks
Sustainability Chair
San Francisco Green Party
415-756-8844

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