U.S. authorities have assisted the Peruvian government in seizing an estimated 10,000 individual shark fins destined for China — one of the largest wildlife trafficking operations in Latin American ...

United States officials said they recently helped Peruvian authorities bust one of the largest wildlife trafficking operations in Latin American history after agents seized nearly 10,000 illegal shark ...

On November 10, 2025, U.S. and Peruvian authorities dismantled a major trafficking operation at Callao port near Lima, seizing approximately 10,000 shark fins weighing 9.3 tons and valued at over ...

Shark finning is banned in dozens of countries and decried by conservationists. China and Japan blocked a United States-led bid to strengthen a ban on shark finning in the Atlantic Ocean, infuriating ...

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 ...

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 ...

Research shows international protections put in place to protect five species of threatened sharks are not being followed. Countries have reported no fishing for the five species of sharks, but DNA ...

Since 2006, 26 million to 73 million sharks have been slaughtered annually, making for a total of nearly half a billion dead animals. That means as many as 90 percent of sharks around the globe have ...

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Texas has banned the trade of shark fins in the state, a move that could end its status as one of the main U.S. centers of activity for the product prized as a delicacy in ...