Hawaii Voting to Ban Sale of Shark Fins

[sailingk8]

Your help is needed:

Urgent: Hawaii State Gov to vote on a precedent setting ban on trade of shark fins in the State. Please send a little note to support Bill SB216. Hawaii would become the first area to fully ban the sale, trade, handling of Shark fins. Hawaii has a lot of Asian restaurants opposing this bill, please write to the state representatives as tourists and divers in support of Bill SB216 to:
reps@capitol.hawaii.gov

It is currently legal to buy/sell/ eat shark fins all over the world including all 50 US states.
Approx. 250,000 shark are killed A DAY worldwide, please help fight this by sending a short note to support this new ban of sales in at least one influential area.

For more news check out the Shark Forum

 

[MauiScubaSteve]

It would be nice to find a link for the actual bill, some have questioned it's wording.

 

[H2O 70]

I just tried to find SB216. I'd want to look at the wording as well.

HI Legislature

You got the right bill no?

 

[H2O 70]

Found it! Here you go.

SB2169 HD2.DOC

 

[Scott L]

A great idea! Do any other states have similar laws? Quite an expensive aphrodisiac so says the NY Times. Pfizer can provide a much more effective method for less than a tenth of the cost.


http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/05/international/americas/05sharks.html

 

[H2O 70]

It would be nice to find a link for the actual bill, some have questioned it's wording.

Yeah...takes affect in 2050!

At this rate there won't be any sharks left in 40 years to worry about their fins!

Did I misread that?

 

[Scott L]

Found it! Here you go.

SB2169 HD2.DOC

The act will take effect July 1, 2050. Nice! I can see there are questions of wording...

 

[sailingk8]

It does say that, good catch. That's absurd.

EDIT: I have written to them to let them know how absurd that is. I encourage you to do the same, it's a great idea but why make a joke of it.
Forty years? Are they high??? What a bunch of wankers!

EDIT 2: please see note below. The date is under discussion

 

[H2O 70]

It does say that, good catch. That's absurd.

Just a wee bit.

It is a way that politicians can say that they actually did something for an issue, but not really have done something to improve the issue.

 

[sailingk8]

Ok just got word regarding the 2050 date. Apparently its a political thing and will be ironed out. So please go ahead and write to the reps and tell them you support this Bill. The vote is the 6th of April.
Bill SB2169
reps@capital.hawaii.gov
one address goes to all the Hawaii representatives