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116TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-273
SHARK FIN SALES ELIMINATION ACT OF 2019
NOVEMBER 8, 2019.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 737]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 737) to prohibit the sale of shark fins, and for other pur-
poses, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with-
out amendment and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 737 is to prohibit the domestic sale, posses-
sion, and purchase of shark fins and products containing shark
fins.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
Chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, rays, and chimaeras) face a sig-
nificantly higher extinction risk than most other vertebrates.1
Globally, one-quarter of sharks and their relatives are threatened
with extinction, with large-bodied, shallow-water species facing the
highest risk.2 Sharks are caught and killed, on average, 30 percent
faster than they can reproduce.3
'Nicholas K. Dulvy et al., Extinction Risk and Conservation of the World's Sharks and Rays,
at 1, ELIFE (Jan. 21, 2014), https://elifesciences.org/articles/00590.
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3Boris Worm et al., Global Catches, Exploitation Rates, and Rebuilding Options for Sharks,
40 MARINE POL'Y 194, 198 (2013), https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2012.12.034.
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