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 ...

FIU marine evolutionary biologist Heather Bracken-Grissom assisted in identification, coordinating with a third-party lab to ...

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 ...

A customs officer stands on a humid dock surrounded by crates of dried shark fins, sweat dripping down her neck as she take a small sample for testing. The air smells like salt and diesel, and in the ...

Despite regulations intended to stem the tide of the illegal trade of threatened shark species, international exports continue on a massive scale. In a study published in the journal Science Advances, ...

Every year, thousands of shark and ray fins are smuggled across international borders, hidden in plain sight in shipping containers or mislabeled among other cargo. For authorities tasked with ...