The consumer demand across Hong Kong and China for shark fins is one of the main reasons why there are fewer sharks in the world. The sharks face an agonising death because their fins are cut off ...

The study found that the banning of finning had "little impact" on the number of shark deaths. Conservationists have long railed against the practice of finning sharks, and there are more bans in ...

A cruel, wasteful and illegal practice called shark finning is occurring — over and over again — on the high seas of the ...

The international shark fin trade is hitting small coastal species and juvenile sharks harder than previously thought, ...

despite legislation to ban shark finning increasing tenfold over this period. Shark finning bans have had little effect on protecting global shark populations, according to new research. However, ...

Shark finning is banned in dozens of countries and decried by conservationists. China and Japan blocked a United States-led bid to strengthen a ban on shark finning in the Atlantic Ocean ...

Formally known as the tope shark, the migratory shark has seen sharp declines from overfishing and bycatch in fishing nets.