A group of grey reef sharks and blacktip reef sharks at La Vallée Blanche in French Polynesia in 2018. Alexis Rosenfeld via Getty Images Roughly 70 percent of countries today have enacted policies ...

Conservation efforts for marine life are growing at a rapid pace — and one of the most consequential has been bans against the finning of sharks. But while numerous countries have enacted legislation ...

Canada has prohibited shark finning since 1994 by means of a licensing requirement for fishers. In 2018, the government added a fins naturally attached (FNA) mandate for all sharks landed in Canada.

Sharks are vital apex predators, keeping prey populations in check, cycling nutrients for species further down the food chain ...

CHINA - MARCH 06: Sharks fins on sale in shop in Wing Lok Street, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, China (Photo by Tim Graham/Getty Images) Shark finning is, arguably, one of the most ‘popular’ poster children ...

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 ...

A new study finds that shark mortality increased by 4% in coastal fisheries and decreased by 7% in pelagic fisheries, between 2012 and 2019, despite legislation to ban shark finning increasing tenfold ...

We've seen all kinds of shark encounters lately. Peaceful interactions, close calls, brutal attacks, and even a mysterious phantom shark. While they'll always be lurking in the back of surfers' minds ...

Shark conservation is not a field for the faint of heart. It pits biology against commerce, sentiment against symbolism, and, frequently, science against entrenched bureaucracies. Sharks themselves, ...