California Academy of Sciences. From 1973 through 1994 he was Director of the Steinhart Aquarium. The California Legislature has introduced a bill ( AB 376) making it illegal to sell or possess shark ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) - Gov. Chris Gregoire has signed legislation that prohibits the sale, trade or distribution of shark fins or derivative products in the state of Washington. Supporters including ...

In May of this year, by a vote of 62 to 8, the State Assembly agreed to ban the sale of the fins used to make shark fin soup. Today, the State Senate held a crowded hearing with witnesses on both ...

ALBANY (AP) — New York is banning trade in shark fins starting next summer in an effort to protect the marine predators. The fins are used in soup popular in Chinese cuisine, and New York is home to ...

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 ...

The governor will now decide whether California should ban the sale of shark fin soup, a Chinese delicacy that critics blame for imperiling increasingly rare species. A bill that would ban the sale, ...

The fins, which are illegal in California, were aboard a private jet from Hawaii, officials say.

Brazil’s top environment council cited a recent Mongabay investigation as it weighed a ban on shark fin exports and the use of wire leaders, a type of industrial fishing gear, within marine protected ...