The Sea Turtle Restoration Programme (Pretoma) and the Citizen Action Party (PAC) requested the Ministry of Foreign Trade (Comex) to ban the entry of shark fins from Nicaragua.
According to reports provided by the Costa Rican Institute of Fishing and Aquaculture (Incopesca), between June, 2011 and July, 2012 about 500 kilograms of dried shark fins entered Costa Rican public piers from Nicaragua.
Randall Arauz Vargas, Pretoma president, considers fin import from the neighbouring country is a mechanism to evade national regulations against the separation of this part of the shark's body at sea.
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