Bill S-238 (Historical)

Ban on Shark Fin Importation and Exportation Act

An Act to amend the Fisheries Act and the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act (importation and exportation of shark fins)

This bill is from the 42nd Parliament, 1st session, which ended in September 2019.

Status

Report stage (House), as of June 6, 2019
(This bill did not become law.)

Summary

This is from the published bill.

This enactment amends the Fisheries Act to prohibit the practice of shark finning.
It also amends the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act to prohibit the importation into and exportation from Canada of shark fins or parts of shark fins that are not attached to a carcass, or any derivatives of shark fins.

Elsewhere

All sorts of information on this bill is available at LEGISinfo, an excellent resource from Parliament. You can also read the full text of the bill.

Bill numbers are reused for different bills each new session. Perhaps you were looking for one of these other S-238s:

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Fisheries and Oceans Committee, on May 27, 2019

Paul Gillis, Director General, Strategic Policy, Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Doug Forsyth, Director General, Market Access, Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development
Carolina Caceres, Manager, International Biodiversity, Canadian Wildlife Service, Department of the Environment

Fisheries and Oceans Committee, on June 3, 2019