SENATE BILL: The Save Our Sharks Act of 2014 (Law'd)

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I shall support this bill; sharks are our friends.

So are pigs and cows. 

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Not every country has a highly developed police force that has the resources to go after things like this.  They have enough of a hard time confronting crimes against humans. We should be working on cooperating with other nations on this rather than economic threats that don't respect the conditions in these countries.  If we place sanctions on them, it just makes the people there more desperate and likely to engage in unsustainable practices.

Also I'm generally not a fan on punishing people for what they put in their bodies.

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AYE

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Amendment is friendly

Thanks!

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I support the ban on shark finning, but a lot of species, not just sharks, face threats from overfishing in general, and I'm not sure a complete ban on all sharks species regardless of their endangered/threatened status is the right approach. 


Nay

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I support the ban on shark finning, but a lot of species, not just sharks, face threats from overfishing in general, and I'm not sure a complete ban on all sharks species regardless of their endangered/threatened status is the right approach. 


Nay

So you're going to potentially allow more sharks to die because this bill doesn't go far enough?

If sharks that have relatively healthy populations now are not going to be able to be fished, meanwhile some of the species the sharks are eating are already threatened by overfishing, can you see how that can be a problem?

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Aye. To consider killing a species just because we refuse to regulate something is ridiculous. Sharks eating fish creates a balance in the ecosystem, us killing everything in the ocean is everything but that.

It's not ridiculous to consider the combined effects of both human and other predator species on small fish.  It's not ridiculous to consider the changing facts on the ground in the sea when developing a solution.  You know it's becoming easier in the North Atlantic to find dogfish than it is to find the cod the dogfish eat?  So why are we banning killing the less immediately threatened species?

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This has enough votes to pass.  Senators have 24 hours to object.

In that case I object.

(I think you meant change their votes.)   

If this does pass, I encourage the President to veto this or redraft it.   If the Senator from the Northeast is not going to look out for the needs of New England's fishermen, someone has to.

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I wouldn't be completely opposed to a redraft changing it to only banning the consumption of endangered sharks, though finning, regardless of how endangered the animal is, is a fairly disgusting practice. I'd also presume that atlasia has a better policy in these areas anyway than the US.

It's sort of irritating that this objection has only just been discovered though.

I was so focused on the international relations aspect of this I didn't come to this issue until I was looking into whether to vote for the final bill.   It's true that it would be great if we had more people looking into the various aspects of bills and recognize problems sooner.

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Aye