Hi divers,
Please sign this petition and pass it along to your dive buddies to sign. This bill in Palau stems from a pressure group of mainly Taiwanese owned commercial fishing boats and Taiwan and China based commercial shark finners.
Stop Shark Finning in Palau: Diving the famed Blue Corner won't be the same if Palau's politicians approve Senate Bill SB8-44 to permit commercial fishing for sharks and shark finning. A follow-up punch is SB8-50, which would encourage commercial fisheries in Palau's waters by granting them a five-year tax exemption. This would gut the 2004 legislation that banned shark fishing by foreign fisheries, one of the most ironclad laws in the Asia-Pacific area. To stop this nonsense, sign the petition sponsored by SharkSavers.org to keep the bills from becoming law: Petition to Palau: Stop Senate Bill 8-44 that opens up shark fishing.
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Please sign this petition and pass it along to your dive buddies to sign. This bill in Palau stems from a pressure group of mainly Taiwanese owned commercial fishing boats and Taiwan and China based commercial shark finners.
Stop Shark Finning in Palau: Diving the famed Blue Corner won't be the same if Palau's politicians approve Senate Bill SB8-44 to permit commercial fishing for sharks and shark finning. A follow-up punch is SB8-50, which would encourage commercial fisheries in Palau's waters by granting them a five-year tax exemption. This would gut the 2004 legislation that banned shark fishing by foreign fisheries, one of the most ironclad laws in the Asia-Pacific area. To stop this nonsense, sign the petition sponsored by SharkSavers.org to keep the bills from becoming law: Petition to Palau: Stop Senate Bill 8-44 that opens up shark fishing.
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