Group: Ban all shark hunting to protect species

Growing concern: Chong, seen holding a finned shark in a Sabah market, claims a partial ban will not protect sharks from going extinct.

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah’s campaigners against the hunting and finning of sharks are growing frustrated with the slow pace in the implementation of various measures to save the sharks from disappearing from state waters.

Describing the move to ban the hunting of four sharks and two ray species as “too little, too late”, Sabah Shark Protection Association president Aderick Chong said that a total ban was necessary as it was near impossible to differentiate the species once they were in the market.