The bill represents a giant step forward for shark conservation as it strengthens the US ban on shark finning, the practice by which living sharks' fins are sliced off and their mutilated bodies ...

There is good news to report from the last days of the 111 th Congress: Legislation to close loopholes in the 11-year-old ban on shark finning finally passed and was signed by the president. With one ...

No Chinese wedding is complete without a round of shark fin soup – or so Chinese tradition dictates. Hong Kong remains one of the biggest consumers of this traditional Chinese dish, despite the ...

If the lion is considered the king of the jungle, then we think the shark takes the ocean crown for being the king of the sea. Unlike dolphins, which are mammals and breathe air like us, sharks ...

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 ...

It’s the largest criminal monetary penalty in a federal shark finning case, Assistant U.S. Attorney Marc Wallenstein said. The company, also known as Hamada Suisan Kabushiki Kaisha, said in a ...