Shark fin soup is a traditional Lunar New Year delicacy, but there have been calls in recent years to ban the ecologically-damaging practice of shark finning. Despite the introduction of anti ...

Shark finning is the practice of fishing sharks, cutting off their fins and tail and dumping them still alive back into the ocean where they inevitably die of drowning or blood loss. The fins are ...

Shark finning is the practice of removing the fins from a living shark. The primary market for shark fins is to make shark fin soup, a traditional Chinese dish. Shark Fin Laws In 2000, Congress ...

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 ...

New Scientist reported on Earth Day that U.S. is ending shark finning in its water. The new rule, which will come into effect in time for the shark-fishing season in June, is part of a plan to help ...

The European Union's executive Monday proposed a blanket ban on shark finning, in which the fins are sliced off sharks, often while they are alive, and their carcasses dumped in the sea.

WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a legal petition today urging the National Marine Fisheries Service to take action against Mexico under the Moratorium Protection Act for failing ...