Finning

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the IUCN Shark Specialist Group recommend that shark finning is banned in all national waters and international waters through the requirement that all sharks be landed with their fins naturally attached. ❋ Guillaume Chapron (2010)

According to the conservationists, finning is exacerbating a crisis in global shark populations, some of which have already plummeted by more than 90% since the advent of industrialised fishing. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Listed as Endangered are two species of hammerhead shark, often subject to "finning" - a practice of removing the fins and throwing away the body. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Listed as endangered are two species of hammerhead shark, often subject to "finning" - a practice of removing the fins and throwing away the body. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Earlier this year, the House passed legislation to crack down on shark finning, which is now pending in the Senate, and previously a resolution calling on the International Whaling Commission to remain firmly opposed to commercial whaling. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Other Ontario cities, such as Oakville, Brantford and Mississauga - as well as the U.S. states of California, Oregon and Hawaii - have already enacted bans on the fins, which are sometimes violently sliced off sharks as part of a controversial method known as "finning." ❋ GREG McARTHUR (2011)

In a process known as finning, the fins are cut from the body of the shark, which is then thrown back into the sea to die. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In a practice called finning, the fins of the sharks are removed while they are still alive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

"finning" - cutting off a shark's fins while it's still alive, then throwing it back into the sea to die. ❋ Sam Wollaston (2011)

In late 2010, the presidents of Honduras and Palau challenged other world leaders at the United Nations to join them in working to ensure healthy global shark populations by establishing additional sanctuaries and ending the practice of "finning," or the slicing off of a shark's fins only to discard the animal, leaving it to die at sea. ❋ Matt Rand (2011)

One day as I walked past my pond I noticed a bass flating on top near shore just kind of finning barely alive. ❋ Unknown (2009)

India and Indonesia? shark finningAction: Ban shark "finning" at sea ❋ Guillaume Chapron (2010)

Many more die from cumulative stress, including "finning," cutting the dorsal spine tips that could puncture the plastic bag. ❋ Robert Wintner (2010)

It would protect vulnerable shark species from the cruel and wasteful practice of "finning," in which tens of millions of sharks worldwide have their fins cut off at sea and are then thrown back overboard to die a lingering, painful death. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Similarly clumsy and wasteful is the practice of "finning" shark: once a rare luxury in Asia, shark's fin has found its way onto more and more tables thanks to poachers who slice off just the shark's fin, leaving the animal to bleed to death, immobile on the ocean floor. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But British conservation groups warn that the high market value of shark fins is fuelling the outlawed practice of "finning", where sharks are hacked with machetes to remove their fins, often while still alive, before the carcasses are dumped overboard. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Many of these prized animals have serious animal rights controversial issues such as finning of Shark cartilages due to increasing price demands. ❋ Unknown (2010)