To the Editor:
On Nov. 25, the New Jersey Assembly voted 54-19 to prohibit “certain possession, sale, trade, distribution, or offering for sale of shark fins.” The idea that foreign nations senselessly slaughter sharks by the thousands, harvesting fins at sea while dumping the unprocessed carcasses overboard, is grossly unsettling to everyone. However, here in the U.S. the practice of “shark finning” has been federally prohibited for years.
That, of course, hasn’t stopped the state of New Jersey from furthering an ideological agenda to protect sharks at the…
December 11, 2019
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