Shark depredation occurs when sharks bite or consume marine animals that fishermen are trying to catch, which both recreational and commercial fishermen experience. Sharks have surfaced in ...

a nonprofit ocean conservation organization. Finning, which involves the act of slicing a shark’s fin and discarding the still-living body back into the ocean, is seen as a major threat to shark ...

conservation groups said. It’s “a huge decision” and a “radical departure from what’s been done so far,” said shark scientist David Shiffman, a faculty research associate at Arizona ...

The anti-finning legislation was preceded by two laws in this century on the same topic: 1) the Shark Finning Prohibition Act of 2000 that amended the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and ...

Published in the journal Science Advances, their findings represent an important step in utilizing data science to tackle oceanic conservation challenges. "Shark sanctuaries are coastal areas ...