1 Amendments of Claudiu Ciprian TĂNĂSESCU related to 2011/0364(COD)
Amendment 11 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) Fish belonging to the taxon Elasmobranchii, which includinges sharks, skates and ray, rays and similar species are generally very vulnerable to overexploitation due to their life -cycle characteristics of slow growth, late maturity and small number of young. INon-sustainable shark fishing has endangered the balance of marine ecosystems and, in recent years, some shark populations have been severely targeted and put under serious threat as a result of a dramatic increase in demand for shark products, fins in particular. Growing demand for shark fin preparations and the high price they fetch have also led to an increase in illegal fishing.