Chinese Ship Caught with Banned Shark Fins in Pacific Ocean in Operation Involving U.S. Coast Guard
Inspectors found shark fins onboard, and the vessel was among four detained in a 11-nation Pacific surveillance crackdown, officials said.
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Kiribati detains Chinese ship over banned shark fin
Kiribati, a tiny Pacific neighbor to Hawaii that has grown ties with Beijing, detained a Chinese vessel this month for illegally harvesting shark fins, its maritime police said.The practice of cutting fins off live sharks and throwing the carcasses back into the sea is banned in much of the Pacific
Kiribati, a small island country in the Pacific neighbouring Hawaii, which has recently consolidated its relations with Beijing, has retained a Chinese ship this month for the illegal capture of shark fins, said the local maritime police for AFP. Practice of cutting the wings of live sharks and throwing the carcasses back into...
To cut off sharks alive and throw them into the sea is forbidden in many regions. However, the demand for shark fins in Asia is high. On board a Chinese ship, the Kiribati water protection police make a cruel discovery.
Hong Kong Free Press
Chinese vessel caught with banned shark fin in Pacific
Kiribati, a tiny Pacific neighbour to Hawaii that has grown ties with Beijing, detained a Chinese vessel this month for illegally harvesting shark fins, its maritime police told AFP. The practice of cutting fins off live sharks and throwing the carcasses back into the sea is banned in much of the Pacific Ocean, but persists […]
The image shows the fin of a large shark. Once the fin is cut off, it does not regenerate, and the shark dies because it cannot swim, forage, or survive. (Laurent Fievet/AFP/Getty Images)
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