One bowl of shark fin soup can cost hundreds of dollars, but the illegal practice of poaching those fins comes at an even steeper price. More than a hundred million sharks are killed annually.
Ecuadorian authorities are contemplating a response to an international sanction of its shark trade handed down by CITES.
Why cracking down on the shark fin trade may be easier than we thought ... Handheld DNA tester can quickly identify illegal shark fins Handheld DNA tester can quickly identify illegal shark ...
File picture The killing of sharks and illegal trade in their fins ... a blanket ban on shark fin trade in the country in 2015. But most of the seizures happened in 2019, indicating poor ...
Workers at Dong Gang Fish Market in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, routinely process thousands of frozen shark fins a day to service the growing international demand for shark-fin soup. Once a delicacy, the dish ...
Two great white sharks pinged off the First Coast in the past week on their way back up north. The sharks, tagged by the research group OCEARCH, appear to be leaving their overwintering areas ...
The “I’m Finished With Fins” event was designed to encourage the public to say “no” to shark’s fin soup and save the declining shark population. Cancel anytime. No ads. Auto-renewal.
File photo. Hundreds of confiscated shark fins are displayed on the island of Santa Cruz, Galapagos, Ecuador, September 10, 2003. Reuters/Galapagos National Park On February 9, Peruvian justice ...
The second king-sized visitor in two days has surfaced in the waters off the Space Coast, coinciding with the eagerly awaited final launch of the Delta IV Heavy rocket from Cape Canaveral.