Sentence examples for removing fins from inspiring English sources
The British celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay highlighted the cruelty involved in finning – the practice of removing fins and discarding the body – in a recent documentary for Channel 4, while several Chinese restaurants in London have removed the soup from their menus.
Thus, the greater care taken in removing fins the greater their value (Vannuccini, 1999).
The Council conclusions make explicit reference to Regulation No 1185/2003 and to the necessity of amending the exemptions to the ban on removing fins provided for therein.
Marine experts are calling on the EU to stop issuing special permits that allow fishermen to remove fins at sea.
In October, the UK government announced that it was going to stop issuing the permits that allowed vessels to remove fins while at sea.
The proposed new law, approved by EU ministers and expected to come into effect later this year, closes a loophole in EU rules by which fishermen with special permits are still allowed to remove fins from shark carcasses at sea.
It also acknowledges the Hmong cultural tradition of fishing while showing which fish are safest to catch and ways to make fish safer to eat prior to cooking, including how to remove fins, fat, and other parts of the fish where toxicants accumulate.
Wrap the removed fins in a towel and keep them with your board, along with the fin key.
Thursday's vote removes the exceptions, which took the form of special permits to remove fins at sea.
But the practice of finning — removing the fin while at sea and dropping the still-living shark back in the water to drown — is considered cruel, not to mention unsustainable.
The official definition of shark finning is "removing the fins from a shark while still on the fishing vessel and dumping the rest of the shark overboard". The practice of shark finning is incredibly wasteful (less than 10% of the weight of a shark is used) and extremely cruel as the sharks are still alive when finned and thrown back into the ocean.
