The Young Inherit the Sharks

In 2014, a young Shark Week fan from Massachusetts named Sean Lesniak was so moved by a special depicting the declining shark population, that he wrote his damn representative. A kid, out here doing his part old school. Anyway, his Rep., David M. Nangle agreed that the shark finning industry needed to be handled and published a bill banning the trade of shark fins in Massachusetts. A bill written into law by then-governor Deval Patrick on July 24th of the very same year.