Shark fin soup can run $100 a bowl in China and elsewhere. In Ecuador, shark meat is sold to the public for as little as 75 cents a pound in local fish markets.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Interstate regulators could be about to tighten the restrictions on the last species of shark that can have their fins removed at sea in the U.S. Smooth dogfish are the only ...

House lawmakers on Thursday passed measures that would ban buying and selling shark fins in the United States and help the country combat illegal fishing as part of the annual defense spending bill.

What you didn’t see on Discovery Channel’s Shark Week: A new investigation shows poachers might be winning in the battle to keep shark fishing alive. Despite regulations in places like the ...

"These three species have definitely been exploited by shark finning as well as sport fishing." A family eats shark fin soup at a restaurant in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 2012.

Shark Fin Trade Faces Troubled Waters As Global Pressure Mounts : The Salt Congress is once again considering a federal ban on shark fins, used in soup. But scientists are divided about whether a ...

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A 21-year-old man learned that the hard way over the weekend when he was bit in the leg by a sandbar shark on a Nantucket ...

The U.S. is set to ban the buying and selling of shark fins, a lucrative ingredient prized in some cuisines but that is tied to a practice condemned by wildlife advocates as cruel and unethical.

If you’re in Los Angeles and the mood strikes, you can order shark fin soup from China Gate Restaurant for home delivery for $16.95. But that would be against state law. California is one of 12 ...

Shark’s fin, like bird’s nest, sea cucumber, fish lip, bamboo pith and other great luxuries of the Chinese table, is prized less for its flavor, which is bland to the point of nonexistence ...

Gordon Ramsay Goes Shark Fin Fishing by Steven Dudley 18 Jan 2011 24 Apr 2023. Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn; ... He was the first of two victims of shark fin traders that ...