Note: The basking shark and great white shark shown here are represented at a scale of 25.5 feet and 13.5 feet, respectively; Infographic: Maura Losch/Axios Not every fin moving slowly in dark ...
Video / NZ Herald An expert is disgusted after a dead, pregnant shark was butchered and finned on a central Auckland beach, saying sharks deserve respect and the finning encourages harmful practices.
But a new study has spotlighted an equally critical, often overlooked problem in the shark fin trade: small fins. Through a comprehensive DNA analysis, they discovered that small coastal shark ...
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 ...
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 ...
Hong Kong’s controversial shark fin trade may face its biggest shake-up in years if conservationists get their way in securing tighter regulations at an international wildlife conference in Panama.