Per the Parks and Wildlife Code §66.2161, buying, selling or possessing shark fins for commercial purposes is illegal in ...

For more than five decades, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science’s shark research group has worked to pull back the veil ...

Specialists with the Sea World Foundation rescued a grey nurse shark off the coast of South West Rocks in Australia. The mature female shark had a large trace line attached to a fishing hook ...

Despite more than a decade of international efforts to curb the trade of threatened shark species, new research led by FIU marine biologist Diego Cardeñosa and Demian Chapman, director of the Shark ...

Every year, thousands of shark and ray fins are smuggled across international borders, hidden in plain sight in shipping containers or mislabeled among other cargo. For authorities tasked with ...

Global wildlife talks opened Monday, with votes expected on increased shark protection, a bid to allow limited rhino horn ...

Research shows international protections put in place to protect five species of threatened sharks are not being followed. Countries have reported no fishing for the five species of sharks, but DNA ...

The sharks and rays are widely hunted, their parts used in commercial products like makeup and moisturizers and in culinary delicacies.

Why cracking down on the shark fin trade may be easier than we thought. Why cracking down on the shark fin trade may be easier than we thought ...