Oceana’s efforts to stop the practice of shark finning and the trade of fins, which still legally feeds the high demand in many states. Readers expressed dismay following a shark fin soup debacle at ...

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Survivors of shark attacks — now trying to save the animals that took their limbs and, in some cases, nearly their lives — want U.S. restaurant-goers to know they may be eating a threatened species in ...

On Friday, July 26, the state of New York became the eighth U.S. state to ban the sale of shark fins in an effort to protect the world’s sharks. Last May, a bill to ban shark fin trade in Texas died ...

For decades, sharks have gotten a raw deal on the high seas, where fishermen have butchered them alive by the hundreds of millions and thrown their carcasses overboard, keeping only the prized fins to ...

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The U.S. is poised to ban the lucrative trade in shark fins, a move conservationists hope will help protect millions of sharks that are butchered every year to satisfy demand in China and other parts ...