The selling and trading of shark fins will continue in the Sunshine State after a Florida Senate bill — proposed with the goal of thwarting the state's shark-fin trade — was amended.

The bill originally would have made it a first-degree misdemeanor to sell or trade shark fins or tails, according to the Florida Times-Union. Additionally, violators would have had their fishing permits suspended or revoked. But the amendment removed the part about selling or trading fins, instead focusing on punishing anglers found with shark fins on their vessel.

As things stand in Florida, it is illegal to remove shark fins at sea or even have them on your boat, thanks to the Shark Conservation Act implemented in 2010. But the trade is still alive and well, as anglers can take sharks to shore and remove fins there or sell and trade imported shark fins. There are 11 states in the U.S. that have banned the trade, and Florida looked to be on track to become the 12th before this setback. A national ban was proposed in 2016, but has not made its way through Congress yet.

Meanwhile, two U.S. senators from the state of Florida proposed a bill that would ban U.S. dive operators from conducting baited shark diving.

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“This is extremely dangerous because the divers may or may not be in a cage and are at risk of attacks,” stated the senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. “Sharks also may learn to associate divers with food since divers are feeding the sharks directly from their hands.”

But Florida politicians may have it backward, according to a report released by Oceana.

Shark-encounter dives accounted for about $221 million in direct expenditures in 2016 alone, per the report — that’s more than 200 times the value of shark fin exports for the entire country in 2015.

“If sharks disappear from our waters, the jobs that depend on healthy ocean ecosystems may follow. However, as long as sharks remain alive in the ocean, divers and their dollars will continue to support local economies,” says Oceana campaign director Lora Snyder. “We urge Congress to protect the jobs and businesses that rely on healthy shark populations by banning the trade of shark fins in the Unites States.”

If the shark-fin trade continues, the gross income from shark finning and shark diving will amount to $0 in due time, and our marine ecosystem will have to foot the bill.

Oceans urges citizens to contact Congress and ask them to ban the trade of shark fins. You can do so here.