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Texas, a center of U.S. shark fin trade, enacts ban on practice

2016-07-01 21:52:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Texas A ban on the shark fin trade took effect in Texas on Friday, a move environmental groups hope will end the state's status as one of the main U.S. centers for the product prized as a delicacy in Chinese cuisine. Texas became the first state on the Gulf of Mexico coast to enact a ban on the trade and joins 10 other states, mostly on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, to prohibit a practice that conservationists blame for a global decline in sharks. Texas had seen a 240 percent increase in...

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