"One of the best things about being a marine scientist is that you never know what you might see next in the sea," writes ...

The practice involves "cutting off a shark's fin, often while the shark is still alive, and dumping the animal back into the sea to die slowly," according to Humane Society International.

Many shark populations have faced steep declines due to years of exploitation for their fins, cartilage, meat, and liver oil. There is a robust global market for shark fins in particular to meet the ...

so banning shark fin would protect sharks, which is an environmental friendly choice. Imagine you are those poor sharks: brutally pulled up from the sea and have your fins cut off. How would you feel?

A 200-pound green sea turtle named JP Saul was released back into the ocean on Thursday, March 6, after recovering from a flipper amputation. Two fisherman ...

Sharks worldwide are imperiled by overfishing. Yet experts disagree on whether policies in Florida and the U.S. aimed at protecting sharks have in fact done the opposite. In Part I of this three-part ...

A landmark decision to regulate the trade in sharks for shark fin soup is bound to have ramifications ... to catch blue sharks in the open sea. The Kesennuma fisheries cooperative in Miyagi ...