Ministry of Agriculture's proposal to allow sharks caught by accident to be used generated doubts and false information. In fact, finning has not been allowed in Colombia since 2007.
Since 2021, there have been 17 artisanal fishermen who were sanctioned or taken to the Police for having a shark in their boats when arriving at port. Unlike finning, when a fisherman catches a shark by accident, he uses all of its meat and not just its fins, which are usually eaten smoked. “It's like they tell you that you can no longer do journalism, that it is prohibited”