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Pass the Shark Conservation Act Today!

Target: Senators from North Carolina and Virginia
Sponsored by: Care2

Fishing interests in Virginia and North Carolina are lobbying to exempt certain sharks from a law designed to ban the cruel practice of shark finning. We need your help to stop them!

An estimated 73 million sharks around the world are killed every year primarily for their fins, which are used in the Asian delicacy shark fin soup. Too often, fishermen slice off the valuable fins and discard the bodies at sea.

The Shark Conservation Act, introduced by Senator John Kerry (D-MA), would ban removal of shark fins at sea, close other loopholes in the current U.S. shark finning law and promote the conservation of sharks internationally.

The time for action is running out. Please let your Senator know that passing the Shark Conservation Act is a priority -- with no exceptions.

deadline: Ongoing...
goal: 5,000

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Dear Senator [Name],

Please support strong conservation measures for all sharks in the U.S. and mid-Atlantic waters.

The Shark Conservation Act (S. 850) will be moving in the Senate this fall. But in order to be effective, this law must protect all sharks from being finned at sea. Exempting one species opens the door to other weakening amendments, which would drastically limit the law's ability to stop finning and rebuild shark populations.

Sharks are in trouble: More than half of highly migratory sharks are overexploited or depleted, and up to 73 million sharks are killed each year -- mostly for their fins. The United States should lead the world in shark conservation by passing laws that prohibit shark finning, or removing the fins at sea and tossing the rest of the shark overboard. Experts agree that the only real way to ensure finning is not happening in U.S. waters is to require that sharks are landed with their fins naturally attached. As the ocean's top predator, sharks are needed for healthy and diverse marine ecosystems.

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# 1,744:

8:14 pm PST, Nov 20, Jason Krumbeck, SPT, Washington
Shark finning is possibly the most egregious act committed my humans in 100 years. There is no reason for us in the developed world to allow these practices to continue in our waters. Please just look to see any video on shark finning to see how barbaric this practice is.

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7:00 pm PST, Nov 20, Anne Watson, California
We have labled those who attack us on at home 'terrorists'. That is exactly what is happening to them. They are being attacked and terrorized. It is their home. We have no place there.

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3:44 pm PST, Nov 19, Cindy Harper, North Carolina
Please support the Shark Conservation Act (S.850)

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3:28 am PST, Nov 19, Sofie Söderström, Norway

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11:21 am PST, Nov 18, Ashley Scott, North Carolina

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5:37 am PST, Nov 17, Elisa Dolléans, France

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7:07 pm PST, Nov 15, Rachel Neff, North Carolina

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11:01 am PST, Nov 15, Love Animals Too, New York

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7:01 am PST, Nov 15, James Lovecraft, Virginia

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3:50 pm PST, Nov 14, Amanda Lugo, Virginia

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11:02 am PST, Nov 14, Lamirand M, France

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7:13 am PST, Nov 14, Kelli Walters, Virginia

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7:59 pm PST, Nov 13, Christina Rupsingh, Canada

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2:53 am PST, Nov 13, ANNICK VAN NOEYEN, Belgium

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12:43 pm PST, Nov 12, Linda Swain, Virginia
This is senseless cruelty for superstitious people with no minds. It must be stopped!

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8:21 am PST, Nov 12, Laura Shucet, Virginia

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6:18 am PST, Nov 11, Aurelie THIBAULT, France

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2:15 am PST, Nov 11, Name not displayed, Germany
Sharks are wonderful creatures and not least very important for the ecological equilibrium of our oceans. STOP SHARK FINNING!!! NOW!!!

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10:12 pm PST, Nov 10, Katherine Akers, Virginia

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9:54 am PST, Nov 10, Greer Hart, United Kingdom
Bogus claims are being made that shark liver oil prevents cancer. This is fuelling a demand that can only lead to the extinction of the shark. The main problem is that the fishing industry, when unsupervised, does a lot of damage to the marine environment and to marine species populations. The World should have a Marine Protection Fleet that would monitor the fishing fleets of the world and have powers of confiscation and imprisonment. With piracy on the increase, such an organisation could join with ships from all nations to curb both these evils.

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9:35 am PST, Nov 10, Tracy Gourville, North Carolina

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9:09 am PST, Nov 10, Gossiaux Genevieve, Belgium

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6:31 pm PST, Nov 9, Linda Peterson, North Carolina

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10:41 am PST, Nov 9, Nicole Anderson Ellis, Virginia

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1:23 pm PST, Nov 8, Name not displayed, California

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12:44 pm PST, Nov 8, Christiane Henker, Germany

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1:40 am PST, Nov 8, Therese Reda, France

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1:02 am PST, Nov 8, Sarah Mcneill, Canada

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9:34 pm PST, Nov 7, Linda Wheeldon, Canada

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3:19 pm PST, Nov 7, Claire McLeod, Virginia

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1:13 pm PST, Nov 7, Erika Thomas, Virginia

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11:46 am PST, Nov 7, Emily Ryon, New York
Sharks are a important part of our ecosystem. Sharks are being killed violently and without mercy everyday. The killing of sharks is like cutting the head off of a snake. The snake is the ocean's ecosystem. Protect these peaceful misunderstood creatures. For the sake of our Earth

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8:38 am PST, Nov 7, Winnelinckx Marianne, Belgium

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10:16 pm PST, Nov 6, Tiffany Ledford, North Carolina

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3:04 pm PST, Nov 6, Annabelle Piques, France

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11:19 am PST, Nov 6, Alexandra MAUVE, France

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4:51 am PST, Nov 6, VIER Eva, France

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1:22 pm PST, Nov 5, LABAT VIRGINIE, France

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7:43 am PST, Nov 5, Sommesous Julie, France

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7:27 am PST, Nov 5, Michelle Pittman, North Carolina

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9:08 pm PST, Nov 4, Stuart Craig, Utah
PADI MSDT Instuctor wishes all to join this cause.

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1:43 pm PST, Nov 4, Jennifer Wolff, United Kingdom
Please listen to the voice of reason. These magnificent creatures are in real danger of becoming a rarety in the worlds oceans. I have had the rare opportunity of diving with sharks considered to be maneaters, and they simply are not. This is beside the point, you would squirm at pups being skinned alive for fur and left to die in agony but you do not consider the same crime is committed against a shark when its fin is severed and it is thrown back into the ocean to die a long gruesome death. A creature of this magnitude and grandure does not deserve such an end for the sake of fashionable human consumption!!! It is simply as horrific as women walking around with puppy skins on their backs, its all for the sake of fashion!! Please see sense and do something to stop this cruelty right now. Thank you.

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1:03 pm PST, Nov 4, Ellen Halbert, Virginia

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10:49 am PST, Nov 4, Eloise Leclercq, France

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