On Thursday 11 May, a large number of MEPs in Strasbourg supported the aims of the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) to end the shark fin trade in Europe.
Virginijus Sinkevičius, the European Commissioner for Fisheries, said that the European Commission would respond to this ECI in July. He wants to “thoroughly” analyse the economic, social and environmental “ins and outs”, as well as the trade, the customs figures and the controls on finning.
He acknowledged that European...