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08/05/2012
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Bethlehem - IBAMA seized 7.7 tons of shark fins - the largest seizure of the product already held in the country - an enterprise in processing and export of fish on Friday, the Industrial District of Tapana in Belém, Pará.
The exporter, who send their fins to China, was choked and fined R$ 2.7 million to operate by user activity of environmental resources in violation of the laws to benefit the shark fins without checking their legal origin and hinder monitoring of the environmental agency.
Repeatedly fined by IBAMA, with liabilities of over R$ 1 million in fines since 2007, the company was operating only as comercializasse dried swim bladders, a byproduct of the fisheries law.
When you inspect the company this morning, however, inspectors found a hidden camera in the tons of illegal shark fins. "The fins obtained through overfishing were also traded abroad and sent through the legal load bladders" explains the Head of the Division of Fish and Wildlife IBAMA in Pará, Leandro Aranha.
As the exporter did not have the maps on board the boats that fished sharks, whose fins stocked, and documents proving the sale of carcasses of animals, IBAMA believe there has been the practice of shark finning in the catches. "This practice, as well as cruel, is driving some species of shark, such as gall-White to extinction," says Aranha.
Prohibited by an ordinance of IBAMA, the finning occurs when the fisherman cuts only the fins and discard the shark carcasses at sea. Often the animal is resistant to amputation and thrown alive into the water, but does not survive. Fishermen practicing finning for economic reasons, since they carry a boatload of fins, highly prized product in the international market is more profitable to occupy it with the whole shark.
Nelson Feitosa
Ascom / IBAMA / PA
Source: IBAMA
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