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H. Rept. 116-273 1 (2019-11-08)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxacuf0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATE U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION Op 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. 2Id. 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. 99-006