Många EU-medlemsländer har efterlyst en snabb förstärkning av EU:s förbud mot 'finning' och Spanien har undertecknat EU:s handlingsplan gällande hajar som banar vägen för dessa förbättringar.
Be Spaniens premiärminister Zapatero att stödja bevarande av hajar
Spanje heeft als voornaamste haaienvisserijland binnen Europa de verantwoordelijkheid om de bescherming van haaien te stimuleren in plaats van te belemmeren.
Vraag de Spaanse premier Rodríguez Zapatero om bescherming van haaien te propageren.
Cambiamo il destino degli squali Settimana europea dello squalo 2009 10-18 ottobre http://www.settimanaeuropeadellosqualo.it/
Essendo la nazione europea più attiva nella pesca degli squali, la Spagna ha il dovere di assumere il ruolo di guida, anziché ostacolare la conservazione degli squali.
Chiedi al Primo Ministro spagnolo Zapatero di sostenere e promuovere la conservazione degli squali
España, siendo el país europeo donde más tiburones se capturan, debe asumir la responsabilidad de liderar, y no dificultar, la conservación de los tiburones.
Se pide al Presidente del Gobierno español, José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero, que promueva la conservación de los tiburones
Spanien ist Europas größte Haifangnation und hat daher die Verpflichtung, beim Schutz der Haie mit gutem Beispiel voranzugehen und eine Verbesserung nicht zu behindern.
Bitten Sie den spanischen Ministerpräsidenten Rodríguez Zapatero, Haischutzmaßnahmen voranzutreiben
El depredador convertido en presa: Revertir la crítica situación de los tiburones
España, siendo el país europeo donde más tiburones se capturan, debe asumir la responsabilidad de liderar, y no dificultar, la conservación de los tiburones.
Se pide al Presidente del Gobierno español, José Luís Rodríguez Zapatero, que promueva la conservación de los tiburones.
Predatori diventati prede: Cambiamo il destino degli squali
Essendo la nazione europea più attiva nella pesca degli squali, la Spagna ha il dovere di assumere il ruolo di guida, anziché ostacolare la conservazione degli squali.
Chiedi al Primo Ministro spagnolo Zapatero di sostenere e promuovere la conservazione degli squali.
Vom Jäger zum Gejagten: Das Blatt für die Haie wenden
Spanien ist Europas größte Haifangnation und hat daher die Verpflichtung, beim Schutz der Haie mit gutem Beispiel voranzugehen und eine Verbesserung nicht zu behindern.
Bitten Sie den spanischen Ministerpräsidenten Zapatero, Haischutzmaßnahmen voranzutreiben
Eerst roofdier, nu prooi: Laat de haai niet naar de haaien gaan
Spanje heeft als voornaamste haaienvisserijland binnen Europa de verantwoordelijkheid om de bescherming van haaien te stimuleren in plaats van te belemmeren.
Vraag de Spaanse premier Zapatero om bescherming van haaien te propageren.
The most valuable part of a shark is usually its fins, which are the principal ingredient of 'shark fin soup', a traditional Chinese delicacy, which is becoming increasingly popular as more people are able to afford it.
This wasteful practice has become common because a shark's fins are so valuable while its meat is much less so.
Sets of shark fins can sell for more than US$700 per kg. A single basking shark fin once sold for nearly US$10,000.
Other shark species important for the fin market include hammerhead, blue, mako, and dogfish sharks.
Sharks around Europe
Did you know that European waters are home to such imaginatively-named sharks as the large-eyed rabbitfish, the velvet-bellied dogfish, the cuckoo ray, the little sleeper shark and the blue pygmy skate?
European waters contain a diverse array of about 70 species of sharks, including warm-blooded and fast-moving oceanic sharks, and even the notorious great white shark.
Too many of these fascinating species, however, are increasingly under threat. One-third of European shark populations assessed are now considered Threatened under the World Conservation Union (IUCN) Red List criteria. Another 20 per cent are at immediate risk of becoming so.
Not just Jaws!
The two largest shark species - basking and whale sharks (pictured here) - can grow to more than 33 and 66 feet respectively (10m and 20m) in length. These slow-moving filter feeders live off the tiniest fish and plankton. More about sharks.
Sharks have two extra senses that help them to detect prey and avoid predators. One of these is an electrical sense that enables them to detect minute electrical currents in the water by means of small pores. Find out more.
Shark finning
Shark finning - the wasteful practice of slicing off a shark's fins and throwing away the body at sea - contributes to an extraordinary waste of public resources, unsustainable shark mortality and dangerous declines in shark populations.
Over the last fifteen years, widespread public outcry against finning has led to bans on the practice in many countries and most of the world's international waters. Yet shark finning continues. For example, in 2003, the EU adopted a ban on shark finning, but allowed glaring loopholes that render the ban ineffective.
Most scientists agree that the simplest, most effective way to implement a shark finning ban is to require that sharks are landed whole with fins still attached.
Just who is threatening whom?
MYTH: Sharks are a threat to humans. TRUTH: Humans are the greatest threat to sharks.
Humans are not the shark's natural prey, so although incidents of sharks killing humans are well-publicised, they are extremely rare. Each year, more people are killed by dogs, deer, lightning or falling coconuts - even by vending machines - than by sharks.
But by overfishing and shark finning, humans are wiping out sharks around the world at an alarming rate. Roughly one hundred million sharks and closely related rays are killed each year in fisheries, either intentionally or as bycatch. Find out more
Vulnerable
MYTH: Sharks are ferocious beasts that can take care of themselves.
TRUTH: Their slow growth, late maturation, lengthy pregnancies and small litters make sharks among the most biologically vulnerable animals in the oceans.
Female spurdog (spiny dogfish) have one of the longest gestation periods of any animal, carrying their pups for nearly two years; females from the Northeast Pacific don't reproduce until they are 35 years old! Persistent European demand for their meat is driving serial depletion of spurdog populations around the world. Find out more.
Why conserve sharks?
Most sharks serve as top predators, at the pinnacle of the marine food pyramid, and so play a critical role in ocean ecosystems. They are an integral part of them, directly or indirectly regulating the natural balance of these ecosystems - at all levels.
And because sharks usually hunt older, weaker or sick prey, they also help to keep the prey population in good condition, as healthy and strong animals are more able to reproduce and pass on their genes.
