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 ...

Instead of selling a 500-pound shark he caught off Block Island, Chris Brown put it back in the water to support shark ...

A Whangārei kayaker got the fright of his life when a great white shark began circling him during an early-morning paddle.

He was casting about 400 feet out with black fin tuna head as bait when ... catch for myself and for land-based shark fishermen." Vanegas said he was fishing for bull sharks, but stumbled across ...

He said the fishing line goes behind them a few miles ... they plan on putting a camera on the shark’s fin so they can watch where it goes after they release it. “It’s definitely cool working with ...

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.

Soupfin sharks were not known to occur in Puget Sound until one was hooked by a fisherman in 2022. Scientists say warming ...

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.

The shark fin trade has arrived in the remote regions ... People on Owarigi rely on the ocean for most of their protein, but subsistence fishing is getting harder as international offshore ...

He urged people to take care when doing recreational water activities such as fishing, to avoid catching ... I imagine for shark fin soup.” “Just like any dead animal you should treat it ...