That’s 180 sharks per minute; it’s a bloody affair. One hundred million (100,000,000) are killed per year, mostly for shark fin soup. In fact, the shark-fin trade is responsible for 75% of ...

(Related: Shark fin ... ingredients in the medical and cosmetics industries. “Many beauty products contain squalene,” Schiller says, “which usually, but not necessarily, derives from sharks.

"I told him it would be impossible to miss the satellite tag on the dorsal fin, so he would know if it was one of our sharks," study author Chelsea Black, a doctoral student at the University of ...

If you’re a long-time reader of articles regarding sharks, you’ve probably heard ... 70% of shark species that end up in the global fin trade are at risk of extinction. Led by Florida ...

The team developed a system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) technology to help safeguard the sharks. Called Fin Spotter, it identifies individual sharks and their species in images ...