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<P><FONT face="Times New" size=5>Congressional Hearing to Discuss a Ban on Shark
Finning</P></FONT><FONT face="Times New">
<P>The Committee on Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife
& Oceans has tentatively scheduled a hearing to discuss banning the practice
of shark finning on October 21, 1999. </P>
<P>Time is running out for you to submit your comments on this very important
issue and we urge you to take the few minutes it entails, to simply send an
Email to the Committee and support a prohibition on shark finning in all US
waters and urge the Committee to support any legislation that would implement
such a ban immediately.</P>
<P>A sample of what your Email might say is:</P><I>
<P>To the Subcommittee on Fisheries Conservation, Wildlife & Oceans,</P>
<P>We wish to support a total and immediate ban of shark finning in all US
waters as it is clearly a waste of our natural resources.</P></I>
<P>That’s all you have to do. Just click on this link........ <A
href="mailto:fishery.subcommittee@mail.house.gov">fishery.subcommittee@mail.house.gov</A>
and submit a one or two sentence statement or more if you like. It only takes
seconds, but it will go a long, long way in Washington.</P>
<P>You can also call or fax your comments in as well to:(202) 226-0200 fax (202)
225-1542 </P>
<P>We encourage everyone who hasn’t sent in their support to take this
opportunity to do so now. We would also appreciate it if you could ask
members of your organizations or colleagues to support a prohibition of shark
finning as well. The actions of the Western Pacific Council
is clearly not in the best interest of the fishery nor the United States
who has supported a global ban of shark finning. Let's give Congress our
support to take control, amend the Magnuson Act and prohibit finning.</P>
<P>Mahalo</P></FONT></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>