Submitted on Thursday 8th March 2018
Rejected on Friday 16th March 2018
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Ban the import of shark fins into the Europe
Right now,anyone travelling to the UK from outside Europe can legally bring 20kg of dried shark fins with them for personal consumption.That's enough to make 705 bowls of soup! It's illegal to bring meat or cheese on long haul flights yet legal to bring 20kg of shark fins.
Every year 73 million sharks are slaughtered. Many simply for their fins.
The fins are then used as the title ingredient in shark fin soup. In some parts of the world, populations of great white, hammerhead, thresher and oceanic whitetip have fallen by 90% in the last 60 years. Worse still they could be wiped out by 2048. Help make Britain shark-fin soup free.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
If you'd like the UK Government to ban the import of shark fins into the UK, you could start a new petition asking for that.
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