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.

Yet, in a relatively short period of time, humans and their technological arsenal have driven most shark populations to the verge of extinction. This is bad news for the world's oceans. Sharks are the ...

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 ...

Threshers are not named for the thrashing motion of their tail, as many assume. Instead, their name comes from a farming ...

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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 ...

Indian fishermen pull up a shark from a boat for sale at a harbor in Chennai in June 2018. Many shark species tend to congregate in the same areas as industrial fishing ships, a study finds.

They hesitated at first, but the fishermen jumped into the water after realizing how calm the tiger sharks were, said Chelsea ...

A shark fin is tied with rocks to help it keep its shape as it dries. A new study of shark fins at markets made the surprising find that many were fished from coastal waters, not the high seas, as ...

The world’s largest shark fin industry lies in the heart of the Coral Triangle, a region of the Indian and Pacific Oceans home to the world’s most diverse coral reefs and known as the Amazon ...