Many shark populations have faced steep declines due to years of exploitation for their fins, cartilage, meat, and liver oil. There is a robust global market for shark fins in particular to meet the ...

Conservation efforts for marine life are growing at a rapid pace — and one of the most consequential has been bans against the finning of sharks. But while numerous countries have enacted ...

The consumer demand across Hong Kong and China for shark fins is one of the main reasons why there are fewer sharks in the world. The sharks face an agonising death because their fins are cut off ...

Some countries/jurisdictions have enacted full or partial bans on the practice of shark finning—slicing off the fins of the shark at sea (often while the shark is still alive) and discarding the ...

Their meat rivals swordfish in quality, and their fins are prized in Asia for shark fin soup, a combination that has put makos under significant pressure. But how much pressure, and to what ...

The largest male great white shark tagged by OCEARCH scientists has surfaced again off the North Florida coast.

Manila: A conservation measure to close a shark-finning loophole was defeated in Manila at the annual meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), the international body ...

Workers in Kesennuma, northeastern Japan, are busy drying shark fins, a high-priced delicacy. The city in Miyagi Prefecture, ...

Even thought sharks are not common in our seas, Hong Kong is the centre of the shark fin trade, accounting for about half the global shark fin trade every year. Because of overhunting, some shark ...

which is called shark finning, and being accidentally caught up in fishing nets or lines. The models include the world’s largest known predatory fish, which is the great white shark, the odd ...