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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.
Steven Spielberg's Jaws opened across North America on June 20, 1975, and immediately tapped into the primal human fear of ...
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 ...
UNC researcher Chelsea Black partnered with Indonesian shark fishermen. Together, they discovered the third-known tiger shark ...
Sharks caught in Monterey Bay were often processed, and dried shark fins were sent to China as premium products, according to a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Human Ecology in late June.
Fifty years after "Jaws" was released in the theaters, the power of sharks in our imagination remains undimmed.