often through the use of destructive and indiscriminate fishing methods such as longlines, gillnets, and trawls. The international shark fin trade is largely unregulated, so sharks caught accidentally ...

serve or sell shark fin products. Information on which jurisdictions and companies have (or in some cases, have not) taken steps to ban shark finning/fishing are listed below. This list was comprised ...

But a century of fishing appears to have taken a toll ... and their fins are prized in Asia for shark fin soup, a combination that has put makos under significant pressure. But how much pressure ...

Beyond shark fin soup, this pivot has caused shark meat ... "Entire bans on shark fishing — not just finning — over large swaths of ocean were the best regulations the group assessed," The ...

A "normal" fishing day turned into an "unforgettable" one for a Yulee man fishing at his favorite fishing spot Tuesday.

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 ...

Fishing crews in the EU earn around €12 per kilogram of shark fin. But in Asia, where shark fin soup is a delicacy, prices for customers can reach €1,500. In Europe, the biggest trade in ...

Ramsay even discovered a fin belonging to a Great White shark, a species extremely vulnerable to over-fishing and which cannot be traded internationally without special licenses.

Fishing has to be limited to waters that are ... to be in watertight order for any sharks to be reeled in and sold. Shark fin soup is not as popular here as it is in the Far East Asian markets ...

A demand for shark fin soup is one of the driving factors in ... can no longer be traded unless it can be proven that their fishing will not impact the possibility of their survival.