A new study finds that shark mortality increased by 4% in coastal fisheries and decreased by 7% in pelagic fisheries, between 2012 and 2019, despite legislation to ban shark finning increasing tenfold ...
HONOLULU (AP) — A business that owns a Japanese fishing boat pleaded guilty Thursday in a case involving Indonesian crew members who cut fins from sharks. Hamada Suisan Co. Ltd. agreed to pay a ...
CHINA - MARCH 06: Sharks fins on sale in shop in Wing Lok Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, China (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images) Shark finning is, arguably, one of the most ‘popular’ poster children ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — American fishermen are digging in for a fight over a proposal to shut down the vestiges of the U.S. harvest of shark fins, prized for soup and traditional medicine in Asia, and ...
Shark finning is the practice of removing the fins from a living shark. The primary market for shark fins is to make shark fin soup, a traditional Chinese dish. Shark Fin Laws In 2000, Congress ...
Shark finning is banned in dozens of countries and decried by conservationists. China and Japan blocked a United States-led bid to strengthen a ban on shark finning in the Atlantic Ocean, infuriating ...
After years of trying, Connecticut appears poised to join its neighbors in instituting a ban on a “cruel” practice that has contributed to decreasing numbers of sharks throughout the world. Shark ...
A new study in Thailand reveals consumption of shark fin has declined by more than one-third since 2017. Yet significant demand for shark fin and shark meat persists: more than half of surveyed ...
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal petition today urging the National Marine Fisheries Service to take action against Mexico under the Moratorium Protection Act for failing ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback