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 ...
After hoisting a shark aboard, many fishers would chop off the fins and dump the rest of the body overboard to die. Those flat appendages fetch a high price since they serve as the key ingredient ...
A cruel, wasteful and illegal practice called shark finning is occurring — over and over again — on the high seas of the North Pacific. Almost half of the 15 fishing vessels boarded by ...
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 ...
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FIU scientists have discovered two major problems after analyzing small shark fins from Hong Kong markets — small coastal species are much more common in the international fin trade than previously ...