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 ...

A fishing-themed Instagram page on Sunday posted a “viral alert” image showing an angler posing with the head of a large shark and asked followers: “What did this?” A little research ...

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.

The shark fin trade is believed to have contributed ... and he says further steps - like a crackdown on illegal fishing and the management the high shark bycatch, a term for when non-target ...

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 ...

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.