Shark Attack -- Oops, Shark Accident -- Victim Defends the Beasts on Capitol Hill

Miami New Times | August 17, 2009
Michael Beach recently joined eight other survivors on Capitol Hill to lobby legislators to pass the Shark Conservation Act of 2009, introduced by Sen. John Kerry. It would close loopholes related to "finning," the brutal practice of slicing off live sharks' fins for soup.

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