Brussels, 21/11/2011 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission brought forward a proposal on Monday 21 November to ban, with no exemptions, the practice of “shark finning” aboard fishing vessels. Shark finning is the practice of cutting off the fins of sharks - often while they are still alive - and then throwing the shark without its fins back into the sea. The Spanish and Portuguese freezer vessels are those most concerned by the proposed new rules, as their countries issue most...