Yet, in a relatively short period of time, humans and their technological arsenal have driven most shark populations to the ...

Continued demand for shark fin soup, dumplings, and other shark fin dishes served in restaurants around the world perpetuates the practice of finning, resulting in an estimated 73 million sharks being ...

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 ...

Some countries/jurisdictions have enacted full or partial bans on the practice of shark finning—slicing off the fins of the shark at sea (often while the shark is still alive) and discarding the ...

We should do everything to help. Karen Ip Ka-yan, 15, Our Lady of the Rosary College Shark finning is a cruel, inhumane and immoral process in which the fins are removed from the shark and the ...

Shark finning—the practice of removing the fins from a captured shark and discarding the rest, often still alive, back into the ocean—is banned in many countries due to its inhumane and ...

But because of the negative associations with shark finning, restaurant owners and managers clam up when they're asked about it. This London restaurant owner wouldn't even let Gordon Ramsay and ...

"I think everyone agrees that the practices of shark finning are inhumane and reprehensible," Burnaby mayor Derek Corrigan said at the meeting. However, a staff report to Burnaby council indicated ...

A landmark decision to regulate the trade in sharks for shark fin soup is bound to have ramifications for Japan, a key exporting nation. Blue sharks were among 54 species of requiem sharks that ...

5 things to know about sharks before you see ‘The Meg’ movie Nowadays, the bigger threat to sharks comes from commercial fishing, especially the shark finning industry. But even today ...