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Did you know... that shark bite victims have met with U.S. Senators to express their support for the Shark Conservation Act, which is pending approval by the Senate?
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Wasn't there some controversy about an amendment made to the bill in the Senate to exempt the species Mustelus canis? Did this amendment make it into the final version of the law? Kaldari (talk) 05:43, 12 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. This was added at the behest of Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, since dogfish needs to be processed quickly, and thus it's usually done on the boat, including separating the fins. Without his amendment (the one the House accepted in the finished bill), that would have been illegal. Daniel Case (talk) 01:11, 2 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I think This article should have a section titled Reason for the law explaining why the Shark Finning Prohibition Act was modified into the Shark Conservation Act. One reason was to close a loophole of the previous act but what was the loophole? Was another reason because the previous act had people sometimes cut off a fin and throw the fin into the sea to not have the fin mass exceed 5% of the carcass mass, wasting the fin? Blackbombchu (talk) 13:46, 24 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
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