Ban On Shark Fins Spiked

Parliament last night narrowly defeated a proposal to ban imported shark fins amid fears it would provoke foreign retaliation against the Atlantic seal hunt and Alberta oil sands. The measure would have abolished a 100-tonne a year trade in imported fins: “We must be very careful here.”

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